At the age of seventy-one, Rose began a school for Indians, who soon came to call her “the woman who is always praying.” Her biographers have also stressed her courage in frontier conditions, her single-mindedness in pursuing her dream of serving Native Americans, and her self-acceptance.
This holy servant of God died in 1852 and was beatified in 1940 by Pope Pius XII and canonized in 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
