Posts Tagged ‘Sisters’

`Wayward’ nun celebrates 60th anniversary

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Sister of Our Lady of the Missions, Thelma Szymanska, took her permanent vows in January of 1952 and took the name Sister Mary St. Martha RNDM (Religious Notre Dame Des Mission).

She celebrated her 60th anniversary as a nun earlier this month. The occasion was marked after several church meetings. “It was a very little celebration,” she says.

Sister Martha says there were a lot of reasons she decided to become a nun. “The main reason would be that I was such a wayward kind of person

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Sr Elizabeth’s rugby pedigree

Friday, June 17th, 2011

A recent  cartoon in the DomPost featuring two sisters in old fashioned habits flanking a rugby player has  prompted  Mercy Sister Elizabeth Julian  to reveal her real-life rugby pedigree. As a teacher of members of the Fili, Lealamanua, Fea’unati and Fa’atau families at schools in Miramar (Holy Cross) and Newtown (St Anne’s), she can claim to be a Read more