Preview

Mary Dempster Research Paper

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1024 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Mary Dempster Research Paper
Congregation for the causes of saints
Palazzo delle Congregazioni
00193 Roma
Piazza Pio XII
10

In today’s world, a saint is a very difficult thing to come across; however I believe to have found the perfect candidate for canonization. Her name is Mary Dempster. I believe that the miracles of this woman are real, and not just coincidental, due to her unstable state of mind. Mary was married to a Baptist Parson, named Amasa Dempster in a little village called Deptford. While Mary was carrying her unborn son in her womb, she was hit in the back of the head with a snowball concealing a fairly large rock. The impact of the hit had caused her to go to into labor. Both her and her premature son had fought for their lives. The result of the
…show more content…
Willie had been sick for quite some time, and it was my turn to watch and take care of him. When I went to go check on him, he was nonresponsive, had no detectable pulse, and when I held a mirror to his nose, the mirror did not fog with breath. Willie was dead. To this day, I still don’t know why my first impulse was to find Mary, but I did. I ran to her, and then with her across the entire village, and when we came back to the room, she simply said his name, stirred him a little, and he had awoken. Mary Dempster had awoken Willie from the dead. The final miracle performed by Mary Dempster is when she appeared to me in Passchendale during the time of the war. I was trapped behind enemy lines, and I was injured and could no longer move. There was a fireball coming at me, and I was sure that I was going to die. Before I became unconscious, the last thing that I saw was the face of Mary Dempster on the Madonna figure. Months later, I awoke in a care facility, and I was alive. I truly believe that it was mary Dempster who had saved me. At the end of this brief, I have included a picture of Willie during the war, as a soldier, proof he had not died at the age of 12. I have included a statement of the recollection of events of that night from Joel Sturgeoner, as well as the picture of the Madonna statue in Passchendale. It is my sincerest hope that you would consider Mary Dempster …show more content…
I’d tumbled off the freight in the jungle by Deptford and found a fire and seven fellows around it, and they had stew – somebody’d got a rabbit and it was in a pail over the fire with some carrots. Ever eat that? It’s awful, but I wanted some, and after a lot of nastiness they said I could have some after they’d had what they wanted of me. My manhood just couldn’t stand it, and I left them. They laughed at me and said I’d be back when I got good and hungry. Then I met this woman, wandering by herself. I knew she was a town woman. Women tramps are very rare; too much sense, I guess. She was clean and looked like an angel to me, but I threatened her and asked her for money. She hadn’t any; then I grabbed her. She wasn’t much afraid and asked what I wanted. I told her in tramp’s language, and I could see she didn’t understand, but when I started to push her down and grab at her clothes she said, ‘Why are you so rough?’ and then I started to cry. She held my head to her breast and talked nicely to me, and I cried worse, but the strange thing is I still wanted her. As if only that would put me right, you see? That’s what I said to her. And do you know what she said? She said ‘You may if you promise not to be rough.’ So I did, and that was when you people came hunting her. When I look back now, it’s a wonder that it wasn’t all over with me that moment. But it wasn’t. No, it was glory come into my life. It was as if I had gone right into Hell

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    After being told he can no longer see her, Dunstan's brother Willie falls ill to the point of death, Dunstan rushes over to call Mary where she then prays over Willie's body, in which Dunstan's claims she brought him back to life. "... finding him just as I had left him, white and cold and stiff. Mrs Dempster looked at him solemnly, but not sadly, then she knelt by the bed and took his hands in hers and prayed..."Willie", said she in a low, infinitely kind, and indeed almost cheerful tone... Willie sighed and moved his legs a little. I fainted" (53-54). This is one of the three miracles Mary performs which lead to Dunstan believing that Mary is, in fact, a saint. Dunstan is familiarised with two of the three miracles throughout his childhood leading him to, later on, study more about hagiology, where he also changes his name from Dunstable to Dunstan, solidifying the change in…

    • 692 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Mary Whiton calkins was born in Harford, Connecticut on March 30th, 1863. She spent most of her growing up time in buffalo, New York. Her father was a Minister and mother was a puritan, they had five children between themselves and Mary was the oldest. Several sources claim Mary’s father never believed in public education and will rather educate his children by boarding them with German and French families. Although it was later recorded that Mary graduated from an established four wall academic setting high school. Mary showed her first interest in psychology while writing her final graduating paper. Topic was” Apology Plato should have written: a vindication…

    • 239 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    St. Rose Research Paper

    • 304 Words
    • 2 Pages

    St. Rose performed one miracle. It was when Dutch pirates entered her harbor and defeated the Peruvian ships. She went into a church to pray. While she was praying, the pirates showed up at the church. St. Rose’s…

    • 304 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Maisie Duscher, aged 17, from Minnesota, created a piece of gum that when you spit it out, it would grow a fruit plant or fruit tree. Strawberry flavored gum grows strawberry plants, orange flavored gum grows an orange tree, apple flavored gum grows an apple tree, and many more flavors to come.…

    • 624 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan woman with a strong religious ethic was captured by the Indians or as she describes them “savages” during the King Phillips war. Mary was faced with severe amount of pain and suffering and was held hostage and stripped away from her basic necessities. Her children were also captured and separated from her, sold or bought by other Indians. Throughout her narrative “The Sovereignty and goodness of God” Mary dealt with unremarkable sufferings however, she remained sanguine about the difficulties she encountered, portraying her hardship and misfortunes as a test from God. After Mary survives the terrible conditions she feels blessed and very thankful that she has finally escaped those treacherous Indians and has returned…

    • 1028 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    white ship

    • 264 Words
    • 2 Pages

    (i) what the Mary Rose looked like (ii) how big she was (iii) what happened to her (iv) why she still exists today…

    • 264 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Fifth Business

    • 488 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Thesis: Dunstan’s belief of Mary Dempster being a saint and his view of her actions in “Fifth Business”, by Robertson Davies, represents the true nature of appearance and reality.…

    • 488 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Blessed Mary Mackillop is one of Australia’s most remarkable and inspiring women. The power of her inspiration is clearly visible as demonstrated by the large crowds who flock to visit her tomb in North Sydney. Most visitors come because they seek Mary’s intercession as they believe she will ask for God’s assistance on their behalf. People come to the chapel and find the peace & spiritual strength to deal with life’s difficulties. Others long for the kind of love Mary showed due to her forgiving nature towards those who treated her so unjustly. It was clearly evident that people recognised that she was a holy person and from that time onwards, the faithful has never ceased to regard her as a saint. Therefore, her official declaration as a saint influenced others to believe in her as the first Australian saint. The Sisters are inspired by the devotion and pure love that Mary demonstrated her commitment to improving the lives of those less fortunate such as building providences for the poor in South Australia . Mary’s beatification involved a process that included an examination of her writings, stories, and testimony concerning her reputation for holiness. After this act, permission was given to formally introduce the cause for beatification in May 1973, whereby she received the title ‘Servant of God’. After the examination of 2 Decrees in 1993 and 1992, Mary now had the title ‘ Venerable’. The recommendation was made to the Holy Father who then decided her beatification in Sydney on January 19, 1995. In April 2008, the documents pertaining to a remarkable cure of a woman with inoperable cancer were delivered under seal to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. After close scrutiny of this case and examination by the Medical Board and theologians, the cardinals and bishops recommended to Pope Benedict XVI that this was a miracle. He approved on December 19, 2009, and Mary’s canonisation occurred…

    • 1643 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Sara Teasdale is an American lyrical poet born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1884. Throughout her childhood and adulthood, she suffered from many illnesses. This caused her to be homeschooled until she was well enough to be put in school, which finally came at the age of nine. Teasdale finished school in 1903 after going to three different schools and battling many more illnesses along the way. She was an accomplished writer of poetry shortly after finishing school and she has had many poems published to multiple different sources. Her poems have also been used as lyrics for many choral pieces and she has won awards for her collection of poems entitled “Love Songs”. At Sara’s funeral, her mother spoke of how Sara always loved reading poetry and looking at anything beautiful, so she was amazing at taking those beautiful things she saw and turning them into poetry.…

    • 586 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The reader first senses Mary's strong will to survive when she is unable to lay down her life in the beginning as she had always planned in the event of an attack by the Indians. Possibly because of her motherly instinct, knowing her children depend on her, a survivor instinct manifests and she goes along peacefully with the Indians. Wounded, weary, sick, frightened, and emotionally distraught, she perseveres, fighting for her life day after day. Her only source of comfort and strength: her faith in God and a desire to see her family.…

    • 669 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Be sure to mention Mary’s accusers and the process by which the court proved she was involved in witchcraft. Be as thorough as…

    • 95 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    English 9

    • 716 Words
    • 1 Page

    Mary in such a peaceful way in the beginning of the story. One example of this is when…

    • 716 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Apparitions of Saints

    • 1264 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The last century-and-a-half has seen numerous accounts of appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Jesus, Himself, is said to speak to a few of the seers. Some of the apparitions have received official approval by the Roman Catholic Church. Common threads running through all the messages are: Jesus has been offended by the multiplication of against His Sacred Heart; and Mary exhorts humanity to prayer and repentance and an increased devotion to the sacraments, especially the Eucharist and Confession. A simple message, but the alternative, we are warned, is a great chastisement which will befall mankind.…

    • 1264 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Saint Padre Pio

    • 965 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Miraculous Medal By Mary Fabian Windeatt is a story of Saint Catherine Laboure and her struggle to fulfill the Blessed Mother’s request of making and spreading the devotion to her Miraculous Medal. The Blessed Mother appeared to her for the first time in 1830 and told her that she would have much to suffer. She would be ignored and pushed aside but would be given the graces needed to do God’s will. Saint Catherine’s patience, love and obedience to the Blessed Mother was continuously tested, yet she persevered in her struggles. Catherine had a beautiful childlike faith in the Blessed Virgin and after the death of her own mother when she was a child, considered the Blessed Mother to have taken her place. Saint Catherine was a wonderful tutor to the young novices and explained to her fellow sisters that we are encouraged to look upon the Blessed Virgin as our best friend and that we should pray to Her for the graces to love God as She had loved Him.…

    • 965 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A Pen Friend

    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The result of this honest sharing has been the growth of a greater understanding of the culture and even of Mary herself. I realize that she is a sensitive and loving person. She is extremely lovely to. As she is the only child she writes to me about all her problems and I do the same. We give each other a lot of support although we live so far from each other.…

    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics