Sister Maria Eden Loyola, OSC, of the Poor Clare Monastery in Langhorne, pictured in an undated photo. Her community reports encouraging signs of recovery following a severe heart attack in July and continues to pray for her complete healing.
Sister Maria Eden Loyola, OSC, a Poor Clare of the Franciscan Monastery in Langhorne, is showing encouraging signs of recovery following a severe heart attack she suffered in mid-July.
According to a Nov. 2 update from the community, Sister Eden is now breathing on her own, able to speak, and feed herself — progress the sisters describe as “remarkable.”
In late September, CatholicPhilly reported that Sister Eden’s health complications had prompted the Poor Clares to seek the intercession of Blessed Father Stanley Francis Rother, whose cause for canonization is underway. The Oklahoma priest was martyred in 1981 while serving indigenous Mayan communities in Guatemala and was beatified in 2017.
In a message this week, Sister Jean Therese, OSC, wrote, “Remarkably, Sister has greatly improved since then, thanks to everyone’s good and fervent prayers!” She added that the sisters continue to ask for prayers through Blessed Rother, specifically for “the miracle of the complete healing of all her extremities.”
“If it is God’s good will,” the sisters wrote, “may this healing also attest to Blessed Father Rother’s cause for sainthood.”
