Archives: Deceased Sisters

“We will celebrate, your love, Yahweh Age on age our words proclaim your Love For we claim that love lasts forever, Founded on your Faithfulness.” Psalm 89 These words found on the cover of Sister Agnes McKeirnan’s...

The following information is in lieu of a letter written to our Sisters on the death of Sister Mary Leo (Marie) Modic, or of an “eulogy”: Sister Mary Leo Modic died at Maryknoll’s Convent in Lakewood, New Jersey, on January 21,...

“The life of each one of us is woven as it were of two threads: the thread of inward development, through which our ideas, our affections, and our human and mystical attitudes are gradually formed, and the thread of outward...

Sister Mercedes, age eighty-seven, died unexpectedly on Thursday night, March 20, 2003, at Santa Teresita Hospital in Duarte, California. Eleanor Mercedes Martin was born July 24, 1915 in Alameda, California to Edward Thomas...

On the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, June 29, 1998, one day after the sixty-second anniversary of her entrance into Maryknoll, Sister Grace Marian Martel died at 9:35 a.m. in the assisted living unit at Maryknoll, New York....