A nun is seen with delegates during a breakout session Sept. 21, 2018, at the Fifth National Encuentro in Grapevine, Texas. Chicago-based Catholic Extension plans to help 1,000 women religious with grants in memory of a group of sisters who died in late December 2020 from complications of COVID-19 in Elm Grove, Wis. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn)
Chicago-based Catholic Extension plans to help 1,000 women religious with grants in memory of a group of sisters who died in late December of COVID-19 in Elm Grove, Wisconsin.
The grants, $1,000 per sister, have been established in the name of a group of School Sisters of Notre Dame, most of whom had been teachers and who died from complications of COVID-19 as the virus spread in the facility that cared for them.
Catholic nonprofit will honor women religious who died of COVID-19
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Eight Roman Catholic nuns, who were in their 80s and 90s and had over half a millennium of combined service to the community, died from COVID-19 despite being “extra careful” at a Wisconsin retirement home in a week, according to reports.
The Sisters, who were from Notre Dame of Elm Grove, about eight miles west of Milwaukee, died from complications caused by the coronavirus between Dec. 9 and Dec. 16, according to TMJ4.
“The Sisters, we’re being extra careful in terms of getting their meals in rooms and they can’t congregate together,” Sister Debra Sciano, provincial leader of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, was quoted as saying. “More testing, being tested twice a week for the virus.”
8 nuns die of coronavirus at Wisconsin retirement home
Four passed away on the same day.
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A do not trespass sign is displayed outside the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, Thursday in Elm Grove, Wis. Eight nuns living in the suburban Milwaukee covent have died in the last week from COVID-19, according to the congregation. [ MORRY GASH | AP ]
Published Dec. 21, 2020
ELM GROVE, Wis. â Eight nuns living at a retirement home for sisters in suburban Milwaukee died of COVID-19 complications in the last week â including four who passed away on the same day â a grim reminder of how quickly the virus can spread in congregate living situations, even when precautions are taken.