January 1, 2013
Servant of God Thea Bowman, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration from Canton, Miss., is shown during a talk she gave at St. Augustine Church in Washington in 1986. A sainthood cause for Sister Thea, who died in 1990, was opened in 2018 by the Diocese of Jackson, Miss., giving her the title "Servant of God." The diocesan phase of her cause was closed after a Mass Feb. 9, 2026, and all the documents will be transferred to the Vatican's Dicastery for the Causes of Saints for further investigation. (OSV News file photo/Michael Hoyt, Catholic Standard)
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