Sr. Dorothy Stang Catholic Heroes The Dormition of the Theotokos

The Dormition of the Theotokos is known in the Western churches as The Assumption and is likewise celebrated on August 15th

wired back that seven candles should immediately be lit in front of the icon of the Mother of Perpetual Help that hung in the church

Monsignor John Egan

where she fulfilled her secret desire to convert from Russian Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism

Sr. Dorothy Stang Catholic Heroes The Dormition of the TheotokosSr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdN 1931 2005 Dorothy Stang was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1931. While still a teen, she entered the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, an order of religious founded by Saint Julie Billiart to minister exclusively to the poor girls of peasant and farmer families. After professing final vows in 1956, Dorothy was assigned as a teacher for fifteen years in the Chicago area, first at St. Victor in Calumet City, an area