Archives: Deceased Sisters

Sister Mary DeRicci Cain, MM

On February 24, 1987 at 11:00 A.M. with several of the Sisters sharing the moment with her, Sister Mary de Ricci Cain quietly and peacefully made the final passage from life to LIFE. Sister Mary de Ricci Cain (Mary) was born...

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Sister Mary John Cahill, MM

This evening about 8 o’clock, our dear Sister Mary John passed away, as sweetly and as quietly as she had lived. Sister Mary John (Mary Ellen Cahill) was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1878. Sister...

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Sister Maria Hostia Bruns, MM

Sister Maria Hostia Bruns died peacefully at Maryknoll Residential Care at 7:55 a.m., February 24, 1998. Sister Hostia was eighty-six years of age and had been a Maryknoll Sister for sixty-three years. Margaret Mary Bruns was...

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Sister Mary St. John Brown, MM

“It shall be given to you: good measure, and pressed down and shaken together, and running over. For with the same measure that you shall meet withal, it shall be measured to you again.” Reverend dear Fathers,...

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Sister Ann Brisolara, MM

On December 29, 1974, Sister Ann Brisolara celebrated her 45th birthday. She was euroute to New Orleans, Louisiana, her home, to visit her family. This was the beginning of her furlough. In the afternoon of December 30, 1974, on...

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