The Church has to follow a process which involves looking at the person's life, actions, reactions to the events of life, what others wrote and said about the person and what the person wrote or said - the result of a great amount of historical research. The Church also looks at continuing devotion - after the person died, was the memory kept alive in the faith of the people?
Following the panel of Cardinals and medical experts positive outcome of the first miracle under examination and subsequent recommendation to the Pope, Mary MacKillop was beatified on 19 January 1995 thus becoming Australia's first saint.
When the second miracle that is being examined in Rome has been recognised, Mary will become a saint for the universal Church and her feast day will be included in the universal calendar and liturgy and prayers may be universally used.
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The patron saint of penitent sinners is St. Mary Magdalene.
She was the first disciple to witness the Resurrected Christ.
The date of Mary Magdalene's birth is unknown but probably occurred in the first decade of the first century AD.
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Mary Magdalene is sometimes represented by an alabaster box of ointment as she is recognized by many as the sinner who anointed our Lord's feet with perfume contained in an alabaster container.
we're all sinners; so...yes.
Mary (or Maria, Marie, Miriam) of Magdala
There are many: Her parents Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, Saint Elizabeth and Saint Zachary, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Joseph her husband, the 12 apostles, Mary Magdalene, her sister in law Mary of Cleophas, etc.
Mary Magdalene is the patron saint of:against sexual temptationAnguiano, SpainapothecariesAtrani, Salerno, ItalyCasamicciola, Italycontemplative lifecontemplativesconvertsdruggistsElantxobe, SpainFoglizzo, Italyglove makershairdressershairstylistsLa Magdeleine, Italypenitent sinnerspenitent womenpeople ridiculed for their pietyperfumeriesperfumerspharmacistsreformed prostitutestannerswomen
The patron saints of reformed prostitutes are: Lucy of Syracuse Margaret of Cortona Mary Magdalene Mary of Egypt
The patron saints of women are St. Margaret of Antioch and St. Mary Magdalene.