Litany of Saints
Picture: Poirier · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Pauline Vanier

Canadian viceregal consort (1898-1991)

Servant of GodCanadaDominican Order
Born
1898
Died
1991
Beatified
not yet
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

Pauline Vanier, PC, CC, DStJ (née Archer; March 28, 1898 – March 23, 1991) was a Canadian humanitarian who was married to Georges Vanier. Her husband was one of Canada's first professional diplomats, Canada's first ambassador to France, and the first French-Canadian Governor General of Canada from 1959 until his death in 1967. She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Ottawa as well as the first non-Roman Catholic Bishop to hold the role following the University's reorganization into a public university.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.

The miracles

Cause open

A cause for canonisation has been opened, which is what Servant of God means. Heroic virtue has not yet been declared and no miracle has been examined.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources
  • Wikidata Q957352 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Pauline Vanier (CC BY-SA)

Not yet written up in full: no Church source with an account of this person has been found yet. The name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.

All saints · About this site · Report a mistake on this page