Marie-Céline de la Présentation

Jeanne-Germaine Castang (24 May 1878 – 30 May 1897) – in religious Marie-Céline of the Presentation – was a French Roman Catholic nun from the Poor Clares. Her childhood was marked with lameness and she suffered a noticeable limp for the remainder of her life after contracting the disease in 1882 and an operation for pain relief in 1891. Her desire for the religious life began in her childhood and after being turned from the Sisters of Saint Joseph she managed to be admitted into the Poor Clares where she soon became ill with tuberculosis. She was permitted to make her vows well before the usual time since she was in poor health.

Castang's beatification cause opened on 18 June 1930 and her beatification was celebrated in the Bordeaux Cathedral on 16 September 2007.

Life Jenne-Germaine Castang was born in mid-1878 as the fifth child of eleven children. The formal introduction to the cause came under Pope Pius XI on 18 June 1930 and she became titled as a Servant of God. The Congregation for Rites validated the informative process in Rome on 13 April 1945 and it had to pass three committees: the antepreparatory one met and approved the cause on 31 July 1941 as did the preparatory one on 28 October 1952 and the general one on 10 April 1956. The confirmation of her life of heroic virtue allowed for Pope Pius XII to name her as Venerable on 22 January 1957.

The process for a miracle attributed to Castang took place in France in 1946 and it received validation from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 20 February 2004. Medical experts approved this on 27 January 2005 as did theologians on 24 January 2006 and the C.C.S. on 14 November 2006. Pope Benedict XVI approved this healing to be a miracle on 16 December 2006 and the beatification was therefore confirmed. Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presided over the beatification in the Bordeaux Cathedral on the pope's behalf on 16 September 2007. The Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux Jean-Pierre Ricard was also in attendance at the beatification.

The current postulator for the cause is the Franciscan friar Giovangiuseppe Califano.