A Heart Burning with Love: The Life of Sr. Maura Pelaez, SPC
A Heart Burning with Love: The Life of Sr. Maura Pelaez, SPC Sr. Maura of the Sacred Heart Sr. Maura of the Sacred Heart C. Pelaez, SPC (1913 - 1974) was a professed member of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres, a religious congregation of women founded in France in 1696 by a young parish priest, Fr. Louis Chauvet. In the Philippines, the Sisters of St. Paul arrived in Dumaguete City in 1904 and has since branched out to many other communities across the country. The sisters aim for integral human development and evangelization which they carry out through the apostolate of education, nursing, social and pastoral services, and ministry to the mountain tribes. There were attempts by the SPC congregation to open the cause of Sr. Maura's beatification but it seems that Sr. Maura doesn't want to be officially recognized as a saint. An unknown source says: "Sr. Maura, the bilocating "saint" never wanted to be canonized. Known for her holiness and love for the...