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Plan to Exhume Body of US-Born Nun Buried in England Withdrawn After Outcry

The Venerable Cornelia Connelly (1809-1879), pictured around 1877. Public Domain.

The Venerable Cornelia Connelly (1809-1879), pictured around 1877.

Venerable Connelly, who was born in Philadelphia in 1809, died in 1879 in the English town of St. Leonards-on-Sea, where she founded a school.