But last Sunday was an unusual day. In the Spanish capital, the church officially opened the beatification cause of Clare Crockett, an Irish nun who died at 33 in the 2016 Ecuador earthquake.

Crockett died at age 33 during a 2016 earthquake in Ecuador, where she had been teaching music. Prior to becoming a nun, she acted in the 2002 TV movie Sunday , per IMDb , and turned down a ...

The beatification cause of Sister Clare Crockett, an inspirational young Irish religious sister who died in 2016, formally opened Sunday with a ceremony at the Cathedral of Alcalá de Henares in ...

The ceremony is seen as a first step towards sainthood. Ms Crockett’s sister Shauna Gill told the PA news agency that more than 100 people have travelled to Madrid for the event, which will be ...

Sister Clare Crockett was 33 when she died after a school collapsed in Playa Prieta, Ecuador. She has now been declared a Servant of God by the Catholic Church, the first step towards being ...