In Memoriam

Sister joined our Community in 2012, became a Novice later that year, and was Professed in late 2013.  She has been an active member for us since then.

She was born in Great Lakes, Illinois, in 1955 "to a wonderful Italian family."  She was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, but has been a spiritual seeker through other denominations as well, especially the High Anglican Episcopal Church.  She was employed as a research administrator for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and taught classes at Minnesota State University and Northwestern University.  Her love of Monasticism came about through her affiliation and friendship with St. John's Abbey and St. Benedict's Monastery in Minnesota.  She was also a volunteer with the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary in Chicago.  Sister always pursued classical learning through literature, medieval and English Romantic poetry, languages, and translating classical texts.