13 religious of COVID-19 in a single monastery in Michigan Died

13 religious of COVID-19 in a single monastery in Michigan Died

Thirteen nuns in a convent of Michigan have died from the crown, with twelve sisters in the space of a month ago. The women, aged 69-99, were all members of the Felician Sisters of the convent in Livonia, Mi. On Good Friday, the virus took the life of Sister Maria Luiza Wawrzyniak, were approved 99. By the end of the month, eleven other sisters; Seventeen were infected but recovered, according to Noel Sr. Marie Gabriel, director of clinical health services for Our Lady of Hope Province. A thirteenth sister, despite an initial recovery, died in June. “The sisters in the presentation of the Virgin Mother Monastery in Livonia – and all of us in the province – are still very Dealing with the loss of so many sisters,” says Suzanne Wilcox English, CEO of Progress mission to the Felician Sisters of North America , the sisters, who were longtime members of the monastery, lived, prayed and worked together. He had worked as a school teacher, university professors and principals before their retirements, women; Librarians, nurses and organist. Sister Maria Luiza Wawrzyniak was “how to die, Sonnenschein Person’für Minister served the papers, local holidays and birthdays sisters in the infirmary to send” an obituary law; Sister Marie Victoria Indyk, 69 nursing students conducted regular trips to the Mission Felician Sisters in Haiti. Sister Rosemary Wolak, 86, spent eight years as a secretary at the Vatican Secretariat of State; Sister Marie Thomas Wadowski, 73, once brought a subclass of winning a national award in the commercial competition of a Campbell soup. The death of the 13 nuns could be the worst loss of life suffered by a group of religious women in the United States since 1918 flu pandemic, according to a global report Sisters, a nonprofit Catholic news outlet. Worldwide at least 61 Felician sisters died. But other religious orders have been beaten by the virus, with six sisters dying of COVID-19 at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Wisconsin in April. The convent closed its doors to visitors in March and put severe restrictions on group activities. But the virus is still reached the monastery and spread quickly. For many sisters who normally pray with those who have died with the social distance in a time of grief it was difficult. “Normally, we share stories about the nurse while awake have lost the night before the funeral,” said the Englishman. “But we have not been able to do that.” “It has its collective impact on the community, and again, very deep,” says English.
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