I am a follower of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich and I believe her prayers have lead me to a Greater Perfection of my Catholic life.

I am blessed to be a parishioner of the Byzantine church of her baptism and Blessed Miriam Teresa Roman Catholic Parish, both in the city of her birth, Bayonne, New Jersey USA. (I am not sure if you are allowed to be a parishioner of two Catholic parishes, but if she could do it, so can I?)

I am hoping that you may have information about Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich’s churches, specifically the original St John the Baptist Greek-Rite (now Byzantine) church building on Constable Hook in Bayonne in the early 1900s.

I am also looking for images or Icons of her you may have, and any other general information. If you have any of that, or anything else of interest, will you please email me, JP Porcaro, at bmt@americanteresa.com?

I am hoping you pray for her intercession – without which I would have been lost in life – and also hope you pray for her canonization.
You can download her prayer card published by the Sisters of Charity here. We pray the prayers on this card after every Divine Liturgy at St John’s Byzantine in Bayonne and St Mary’s Byzantine in Jersey City, NJ.

Prayer for Canonization
Most Holy and Blessed Trinity,
Whom Blessed Miriam Teresa loved so ardently,
grant that we like her may become ever more conscious of Your Divine Presence within our souls.
We implore You to continue to show signs that Your humble servant enjoys glory with You in Heaven,
and to hasten the day when we may render her a lasting tribute of our veneration and love.
+ Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forever and ever,
Amen.

Prayer for Intercession
Most Holy and Adorable Trinity,
+ Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
for Your own glory and the sanctification of souls,
glorify Your servant Blessed Miriam Teresa, by granting to us the graces which we humbly ask through her intercession.
1x Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.

Please do check out the Greater Perfection audiobook, which is a book of her collected works that I am slowly recording for the internet to enjoy. – JP