Pope puts another British woman on road to sainthood

From The Daily Mail-

Pope Francis yesterday moved a British woman closer to sainthood for the second time in less than a month.

He formally declared that Mother Mary Veronica of the Passion, a little-known Carmelite nun, had lived a life of ‘heroic virtue’.

His decree opens the way for the search for two miracles first to declare her ‘Blessed’ and finally to canonise her as a saint.

Born Sophie Leeves, Mother Mary Veronica founded the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, a religious congregation of Carmelite nuns based in India.

She was born in 1823 in Constantinople to the Rev. Henry Daniel Leeves, an Anglican chaplain to the British Embassy there, and Marina Haultain, the daughter of a Colonel in British Army.

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