By Neila Todd
Holy Mother Church declared Mother Mary Ellerker of the Blessed Sacrament, foundress of the Corpus Christi Carmelites, a Servant of God, in the closing years of the last century.
She is the first person so recognised in the region in this inaugural step towards beatification and canonisation, a rigorous and scrupulous process demanded for recognition of clearly stated heroic virtues during the candidate’s lifetime.