Breaking! Pope Leo XIV has declared American Mother Mary Teresa Tallon venerable.
Tallon was born in Hanover, New York, on May 6, 1867, to Irish immigrants. At age 19, she joined the Holy Cross Sisters, in South Bend, Indiana, working for 33 years in the order, as a teacher in Catholic schools, with poor and neglected children. In 1920, she founded a new order, the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate, as a community focused on contemplation and door-to-door, personal ministry. She died in 1954, leaving behind a community that continues its person-to-person ministry in New York, New Jersey, the Diocese of Phoenix and in dioceses in Nigeria and the Philippines.
Today the pope signed a decree recognizing her heroic virtue.