{"id":126212,"date":"2026-02-07T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:43:12","slug":"family-of-ny-nun-up-for-sainthood-calls-on-pope-leo-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126212\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of NY nun up for sainthood calls on Pope Leo for help"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of Mother Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, an Irish nun who founded the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, is praying Pope Leo XIV<\/a> will advance her decades-long quest for sainthood.<\/p>\n

Mother Angeline \u2014 who\u2019s credited with two purported miracles that healed sick children \u2014 died on Jan. 21, 1984, her 91st birthday.<\/p>\n

She founded the order in upstate Germantown in 1929 with a radical mission: creating home-like nursing facilities where the elderly, rich or poor, could live side by side with dignity.<\/p>\n

Mother Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory was a New York nun
who is currently up for sainthood in the Catholic church. Friends of Venerable Mary Angeline Teresa\/ Facebook<\/p>\n

In 2012, then-Pope Benedict XVI declared Mother Angeline had led a life of \u201cheroic virtue,\u201d considered a key stepping stone toward sainthood and giving her the title of \u201cVenerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now her case for canonization rests in Rome with Chicago-born Pope Leo<\/a> XIV.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would be more fitting than an American pope making her a saint?\u201d grandniece Katie McCrory told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had European ideals and everything, spoke French, very cultured, but her impact was in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Father Mario Esposito, the vice postulator for the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Mother Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, agreed that the pope could turn the nun into a pet cause, given his recent focus on elder care<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, being an American, he would be more sensitive to the issues in health care. Catholic health care in the United States is a very big thing. The Carmelite Sisters have been at the forefront of being against physician-assisted suicide,\u201d Esposito reasoned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are issues I\u2019m sure the pope cares about. Life has become under attack, especially the elderly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mother Angeline is credited with two purported miracles that healed sick children. The Mother Angeline Society<\/p>\n

McCrory\u2019s next threshold on the way to sainthood is Beatification, which requires proof of a single miracle.<\/p>\n

Her biography has not one, but two miraculous medical events attributed to her intercession. But neither are considered proven by the Vatican due to a lack of medical records.<\/p>\n

A toddler exhibiting signs of encephalitis \u2014 specifically being non-verbal and exhibiting very low levels of physical activity \u2014 was taken to the Germantown grave of Mother Angeline in the early 2000s, according to Esposito.<\/p>\n

The child was placed on her tombstone and immediately started laughing and became animated with a newfound spirit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe family said from then on, the child was different,\u201d Esposito explained. \u201cNow she is in her twenties and doing beautifully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the medical records detailing the child\u2019s initial health diagnosis were not explicit enough for Vatican investigators.<\/p>\n

The grave of Mother Angeline, which was the site of one of her miraculous medical interventions in the 2000s. James Messerschmidt for the NY Post<\/p>\n

In the second case, a pregnant woman\u2019s unborn child had been diagnosed with hypochondroplasia \u2014 a genetic skeletal disorder.<\/p>\n

After praying to Mother Angeline for assistance, the child was born completely healthy and at a normal size. \u201cWhen the baby was born, the doctor, who was an expert in this type of syndrome, said he\u2019d never seen anything like it,\u201d Esposito said of the birth.<\/p>\n

The mother, however, declined genetic testing while the child was in utero, leaving a lack of sufficient medical records to prove a miracle.<\/p>\n

McCrory was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, spent her adolescence and teen years in Scotland, and studied in Rome to become a Little Sister of the Poor, before moving to the US in 1915.<\/p>\n

The Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm operate, sponsor or cosponsor over 20 elder-care facilities in the US, including in New York, Florida and Pope Leo\u2019s native Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of Mother Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, an Irish nun who founded the Carmelite Sisters for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6300,4840,57,9,11,10,54724,5638,54725,817,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-126212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-catholic","9":"tag-catholic-church","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nuns","15":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","16":"tag-saints","17":"tag-upstate-new-york","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}