Sister Nancy Nolan, S.P. (May 13, 1936 - December 20, 2020) was the

Superior General A superior general or general superior is the leader or head of a religious institute in the Catholic Church and some other Christian denominations. The superior general usually holds supreme executive authority in the religious community, while t ...

of the

Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are an apostolic congregation of Catholic women founded by Saint Theodora Guerin (known colloquially as Saint Mother Theodore) at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, in 1840. Mother Theodo ...

, Indiana, from 1986-1996. During her term, she completed renovation of the

Church of the Immaculate Conception (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana) The Church of the Immaculate Conception on the motherhouse grounds of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is a large Italian Renaissance Revival-style church constructed of Indiana limestone at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. The ...

. Nolan also oversaw the 150th anniversary of the Congregation, founded by

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in 1840, and completed the construction of Providence Center at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. During her term she was actively involved in the process of promoting the Cause for the Canonization of Mother Theodore Guerin, who was

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a Roman Catholic

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in 2006. After serving as Superior General, Nolan spent time as president of

Guerin College Preparatory High School Guerin Preparatory High School was a private, Roman Catholic high school in River Grove, Illinois, United States. It was located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Guerin was established in 1962 as Mother Theodore Guerin High School, ...

in Chicago until February 2007. A scholarship program there, Nolan Scholars, was named in her honor. On December 20, 2020, at the age of 84, Nolan died at the motherhouse in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.

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