Cause for sainthood being explored for former Utahn

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Cora Evans is shown typing with scrolls.

The Catholic Church has officially opened the cause for sainthood for Cora Evans, who was born in Utah and was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but was baptized into the Catholic faith in 1935. She died in 1957 in in the Diocese of Monterey, Calif. She had "numerous visionary experiences and wrote a number of manuscripts," according to Michael McDevitt, who is the custodian of her writings. A story about the cause for Cora Evans will appear in the April 22 issue of the Intermountain Catholic.