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A lot of people don't know that Bakersfield has a patron saint. She, of course, has never been here. As far as I know, no one who has lived in Bakersfield has ever been formally recognized as a saint. She never lived in Fresno either. But St. Therese de Lisieux, for whom Mother Teresa was named, got to be the patroness of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno (which includes Bakersfield) because a Fresno bishop happened to be in Rome when St. Therese was canonized. Bishop John G. MacGinley was chatting with Pope Pius XI in 1925 at the declaration of sainthood. That was just 28 years after Therese died of tuberculosis on Sept. 30, 1897, at the young age of 24, in a Carmelite convent in Lisieux, France. The bishop asked if the newly sainted could become the patron saint of the Fresno diocese. I'm guessing the Pope felt the Fresno area really needed a saint (what with the Grapes of Wrath just a few years away), so he said okay as long as a church was named in her...
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