Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

MARYKNOLL SISTER SANDRA ANNE GALAZIN | 1944-2015: Missioner served more than four decades in Hawaii as social worker, counselor

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Maryknoll Sister Sandra Anne Galazin, who served most of her 47 years of religious life as a counselor and social worker in Hawaii, died Sept. 26, at Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, N.Y. She was 71. Sister Sandy, as she was known in the Islands, recalled her religious calling in a 2011 Hawaii Catholic Herald […]

Sister Aurora dela Cruz, Maryknoll Sisters: Making God’s love visible

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When I was on the Majuro atoll in the Marshall Islands, I really experienced God’s love and providence in the midst of many challenges. Basic resources were so limited there. When it rained, it was like a miracle and a blessing that God provided fresh water to drink. Because otherwise, being on a coral island […]

Maryknoll Sister Mary Camilla Kennedy | 1926-2014

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Missioner-educator served in the Marshall Islands, Hawaii Maryknoll Sister Mary Camilla Kennedy, missioner-educator to Hawaii and the Marshall Islands, died on Dec. 14 at the Maryknoll Sisters Home Care, Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 88 years old and celebrated 70 years as a Maryknoll Sister this year. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., on June 20, 1926, Sister […]

Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Margaret Frances Kulage | 1907-2014

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Congregation’s oldest member, 107, served in Hawaii and the Philippines Maryknoll Sister Margaret Frances Kulage, who survived a boat capsizing in shark-infested Philippine waters and teaching assignments in Kalihi to become her congregation’s oldest member, died Aug. 28 at age 107 at the Maryknoll Sisters Home Care IV in Maryknoll, N.Y. She was a Maryknoll […]

Viriditas: Sister Lourdes Fernandez, Maryknoll Sisters

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The energy of the grace of God Mission is adventure. When the U.S. bishops, through the LCWR (Leadership Council of Women Religious) invited religious of different congregations to volunteer to go to Albania in the 1990s, I said, “Yes.” I had the openness and the enthusiasm to go. I had never been to Europe or […]

Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Mary Elizabeth Driscoll, missioner for 70 years, taught in Hawaii

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Maryknoll Sister Mary Elizabeth Driscoll, who taught in Catholic grade schools for a decade in post-war Hawaii, died peacefully on Oct. 2 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. She was 90. She had celebrated 70 years as a Maryknoll Sister on Sept. 7. Hawaii was Sister Mary Elizabeth’s first assignment as a Maryknoll […]