Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, daughter of Ruthenian immigrants, grew up amid the oil refineries of Bayonne, NJ. In 1925 she entered the Sisters of Charity. Though herself a novice, her spiritual director asked her to write his conferences for the novices.
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Only after her death was she revealed as the true author. Her theme was the way of holiness, available to all in every station of life. "The saints did but one thing--the will of God. But they did it with all their might. We have only to do the same thing."

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After falling mortally ill, she was permitted to make her final profession of religious vows, but died a month later on May 8, 1927. In 2014 she was beatified at the Cathedral of Newark, the first beatification to occur on American soil.
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