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Mother Cornelia Connelly, founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, is pictured in an undated painting by Ellen Cooper. She was born in Philadelphia in 1809 but died in 1879 in St. Leonards-on-Sea, England. Her order announced Feb. 26 it had withdrawn its request to exhume her remains and transfer some of her relics from England to Philadelphia. (CNS illustration/Ellen Cooper, courtesy Society of the Holy Child Jesus)