Sister Mary Chrysostom McCann

Sister Mary Chrysostom McCann

Our Blessed Lady’s birthday, September 8, commemorates two events which we believe were not mere coincidences. On that day in 1980 Sister Mary Chrysostom, aged 90 years, died after a long illness at St. Mary’s of the Lake Hospital, Kingston. On that day in 1936 her...
Sister Mary Celine Nagle

Sister Mary Celine Nagle

Sister Mary Celine died December 18, 1980, at St. Mary’s of the Lake Hospital, Kingston. Sister was born on November 25, 1893. Her father, Joseph Nagle, was a life-long member of St. John’s Parish, Perth, Ontario, and her mother, Margaret Anne Salmon, a member of St....
Sister Mary Laura Otterson

Sister Mary Laura Otterson

On a farm home in Billings Bridge on the outskirts of Ottawa, Cecilia Charlotte Otterson was born on May 15, 1898, one of eleven children (two of whom died in infancy) entrusted to George Ottterson and his wife, Mary Anne Collins. Cecilia was blessed with a keen alert...
Sister Mary Veronica Williams

Sister Mary Veronica Williams

Sister Mary Veronica (Mary Marguerite Williams) was born in Quebec City on September 6, 1898, a daughter of J. Benson Williams and Elizabeth Anne Quinn. When Marguerite was just two years old, her only sister, Mary Angela, died and three years later God called her...
Sister Mary Frances Teresa

Sister Mary Frances Teresa

On New Year’s Day, 1980, shortly after 6 a.m., at the Marian Infirmary, Heathfield, Sister Mary Frances Teresa heard and answered the last call of her heavenly Father. How fitting it was that this call should come at the Angelus hour to one who from her earliest years...