Sister Clare Crockett s sister to address anniversary retreat Sister Clare Crockett died in an earthquake in Ecuador on April 16 2016. Seamus McKinney 14 April, 2021 01:00
A sister of tragic Derry nun Sister Clare Crockett is among the speakers scheduled to take part in a retreat marking the fifth anniversary of her death.
From the city’s Brandywell, she was killed when the building in which she was teaching music collapsed in an earthquake in Ecuador on April 16, 2016.
Following her death, a large number of video recordings and other documents compiled by Sister Clare (33) came to light in which she revealed an unusual path to the clerical life. In 2004, Sister Clare revealed she had originally wanted to become a movie star. She also revealed she had announced her plans to take Holy Orders “with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other”.
Huge interest in week-long retreat in Derry next week in memory of Sister Clare Crockett
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Retreat to mark the fifth anniversary of death of St Clare Crockett
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Cause for Sr Clare sainthood to open on fifth anniversary of death The cause for the canonisation of Derry nun, Sister Clare Crockett will be opened in April on the fifth anniversary of her death. Seamus McKinney 01 February, 2021 01:00
A mural was painted on a gable wall close to Sister Clare Crockett s Brandywell home last year.
THE religious order to which Derry nun Sister Clare Crockett belonged is to open the cause for her canonisation on the fifth anniversary of her death in April.
Sr Clare (33) was killed when the building in which she was teaching music collapsed in an earthquake in Ecuador in April 2016.