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consultants on 30 November 1976 determined the healing came as a direct result of Kasper's intercession. The C.C.S. alone – also on 30 November – provided additional confirmation. This later culminated on 20 January 1977 when Paul VI confirmed the healing as a miracle which would allow for Kasper to be beatified.
228:. Kasper entered the religious life later in her life despite having harbored a desire to become a religious sister for a very long time. It did not materialize earlier due to aggravating circumstances such as the deaths of both her father and her brother, and Kaspers' poor economic status. Moreover, due to the
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were established and Kasper (and the other women) were professed as religious. Kasper took the religious name "Maria". The congregation spread at a rapid pace and Kasper visited the various homes that spread to see how each functioned and how each was performing its mission; the congregation soon
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The beatification process began in
Limburg in an informative process that opened in 1928 and was closed less than a decade later in 1935. Kasper's spiritual writings were approved by theologians on 27 November 1937. The formal introduction to the cause came on 3 February 1946 under
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The activities of her group did not go unseen, particularly as their activities grew. The local mayor made a public announcement about the group, gave them some guidelines, and asked the villagers to make donations to them. Also the priests from neighbouring
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Her beatification then depended upon the papal confirmation of a miracle that science and medicine fail to explain. The miracle leading to her beatification was the healing of the sister Maria
Herluka – of Kasper's order – from severe
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and took fellow children there too. At an early age resolved to consecrate her life to God. During adolescence Kasper worked in the fields to support her parents, while her vision of a vocation grew clearer as she worked.
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Kasper also worked in the fields and one such job she was entrusted with was the splitting of stones for road construction in the areas around the field. Kasper often traveled to a
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and their consultants likewise confirmed their approval for the cause on 9 April 1974. The C.C.S. granted additional approval to the cause on 4 June 1974. Kasper became titled as
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confirmed her canonization which was celebrated in Saint Peter's Square on 14 October 2018. The miracle that allowed for her canonization took place in India in 2012.
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