Archives: Deceased Sisters

Sister Carol Piette, MM

For Carla  Pilgrim, clown, beat up lady was how you saw yourself the rest of us, the world you called circus. We loved you as Carla, woman of God, artist, poet sensitive, suffering. We shared laughter and tears a search for new...

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Sister Bernardita Pierson, MM

About noon on October 10, 1991, Sister Bernardita Maria Pierson died at Phelps Memorial Hospital. We are happy that her long-term illness has ended and she now enjoys her new life with the Lord. Yet, we shall miss her presence...

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Sister M. Ignatius Quigley, MM

In Mother Mary Colman’s letter of February 15, she told us of her anxiety to see Sister Mary Ignatius before leaving for her Visitation of the houses in the Hawaiian and Marshall Islands – and of her delightful visit with...

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Sister Rose Fidelis Qualtere, MM

This morning shortly before eleven o’clock Sister Rose Fidelis died most peacefully. Sister’s strength had been declining for some time. When I saw her this morning, I said, “Soon will come the most beautiful of all...

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Sister Paula Sullivan, MM

On Saturday, February 22, 1986 at 5:30 A.M., Sister Paula Sullivan died peacefully in our Maryknoll Nursing Home where she had been a patient. Sister had been failing for about a month though up until the day before her death...

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