Archives: Deceased Sisters

Sister Benedicta Deichelbohrer, MM

“I chose this life because I wanted to walk hand in hand with Jesus and all that I do is done for Him.” These are the words that Sister Benedicta wrote regarding her vocation to Maryknoll and the religious life. They correspond...

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Sister Rosemary DeFelice, MM

On Saturday afternoon, September 6, 1997, Sister Rosemary De Felice died peacefully in the Residential Care Unit of the Maryknoll Sisters. It was 74 years ago that Sister Rosemary made her First Profession as a Maryknoll Sister....

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Sister Mary Sebastian Deegan, MM

After almost a lifetime of illness, Sister Mary Sebastian Deegan slipped away at 5:30 the morning of July 14, 1996 in the Skilled Nursing Facility. We give praise and thanks that her life of illness is over and she can enjoy...

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Sister M. Francis Davis, MM

While we were at dinner today, word came from Bethany that our dear Sister M. Francis had slipped quietly from our midst to join Maryknollers in Heaven, thus marking the gentle end of her earthly life in its 78th year, and the...

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Sister M. Agatha Davin, MM

We gather together this morning faced once again with the mysteries of life and death, sickness and health, the passion and the resurrection. We join with the family of Sister Agatha to wish her Godspeed on this, her final...

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