Almost 90 years after her passing, a New Jersey nun credited with restoring a blind man's sight will be the first person beatified on U.S. soil in a historic honor. Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, of the Sisters of Charity in Convent Station, NJ., will be beatified Saturday in a Mass of Beatification at Newark's Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The move is an important step on the road to becoming a saint, following be venerated for heroic virtue but preceding the final step of having a a second miracle attributed to them. Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, of the Sisters of Charity in Convent Station, NJ., will be beatified Saturday in a Mass of Beatification at Newark's Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart
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Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, of the Sisters of Charity in Convent Station, NJ., will be beatified Saturday in a Mass of Beatification at Newark's Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart
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Demjanovich is credited with restoring the sight of 8-year-old Michael Mencer in 1964 when his teacher gave him a prayer card associated with the nun and a strand of her hair
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Mencer was suffering from macular degeneration, of which there is no known cure
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If one more miracle is attributed to Demjanovich, she could attain sainthood in the Catholic Church
Miriam Teresa Demjanovich
Miriam Teresa Demjanovich
Miriam Teresa Demjanovich
For Demjanovich to be canonized, the church also had to be shown that others had prayed for @placeholder's intercession before the boy was cured.