Longtime teacher spent decades in Hawaii, California schools Hawaii Catholic Herald Maryknoll Sister Nancy Thomas, who spent her childhood years in Hawaii and later returned to teach at schools across the state for 20 years, died March 3 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll, New York. She was 96. Sister Thomas was born on […]
Sister Mary Louise (Hideko) Higa | 1927-2023
Maui-born Maryknoll sister small of stature, great of heart This “Letter of appreciation” was read Aug. 18 at the funeral of Sister Mary Louise Higa, a Maui-born Maryknoll Sister who died at Maryknoll, New York, on July 24. It was edited for length and clarity. In the life of Sister Mary Louise (Hideko) Higa and […]
SISTER LOURDES FERNANDEZ, MM | 1943-2023
Missioner helped bring the faith back to post-communist Albania By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Maryknoll Sister Lourdes Fernandez, who recently served in Hawaii and was a member of the community’s Central Pacific Region, died July 7 in the city of Moundou, in the north central African country of Chad, her latest missionary assignment. She […]
SISTER ANNE KAREN BRANNICK, MM | 1921-2023
Maryknoller gave 19 years of social work to Hawaii Maryknoll Sister Anne Karen Brannick who spent 19 years in the 1950s and 1960s as a social worker in Hawaii, died April 19 at age 101. She was a Maryknoll missionary for 80 years. Mary Catherine Brannick was born in Freeport, Illinois, on May 18, 1921, […]
MARYKNOLL SISTER MARIE MAY | 1928-2023
Missioner, teacher, social worker served island communities with love Maryknoll Sister Marie Anne May, who served in Hawaii for 15 years as a teacher and a social worker before spending the balance of her life’s mission on the Micronesian island of Yap, died at Maryknoll Sisters Center in New York on April 6. She was […]
SISTER MARY THECLA MUTSUYE TSURUDA, MM | 1924-2023
Maryknoll sister brought joy to the elderly she served in Hawaii Maryknoll Sister Mary Thecla Mutsuye Tsuruda whose gentle spirit brought joy to the lives of the elderly she served at Honolulu’s Catholic Social Services and Catholic Charities Hawaii in the 1980s and 1990s, died April 5 at Maryknoll, New York. She was 98, and […]
Maryknoll Sisters embrace new mission presence
We take a new step in history as climate change leads to worldwide migration, violence, racism, & poverty threatens peace & justice in so many parts of our world, our Sisters see the urgent need to ask how and where they are most needed today? Learn more: https://t.co/nEsMF4dGLR pic.twitter.com/SouDCT1Q93 — Maryknoll Sisters (@MaryknollSister) August 9, […]
SISTER CECILIA ROSE SANTOS, MM | 1929-2022
Maryknoller wanted to be a foreign missionary from grade 1 Sister Cecilia Rose Santos, the Maui-born Maryknoll missionary who served more than 40 years in Chile, died March 18 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in New York. She was 93 and was celebrating her 75th anniversary in religious life this year. She had been a […]
Maryknoll Sisters celebrate 100 years of ministry in China
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — It was 100 years ago — on Sept. 12, 1921 — when the Maryknoll Sisters assigned its first group of sisters to China, the order’s first mission. One sister has been there nearly half that time, 49 years to be exact. To mark the 100th anniversary, Maryknoll […]
SISTER DOLORES ROSSO, MM | 1924-2021
Maryknoller’s mission a ‘source of awe, wonder, joy and gratitude’ Maryknoll Sister Dolores Rosso, who served more than 45 years in Hawaii, mostly at Maryknoll School, died July 6 at Maryknoll, New York. As a Maryknoll Sister for 78 years, her personal motto, from St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, was, “I live, now not […]
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