My Daughter the Nun

by Eileen C. Marx

"I didn't want Rose Marie to be a nun. I wanted her to finish her nursing studies. I didn't know a lot about nuns but I felt that they had such a restricted life," said Anna Jorde Pelligra, mother of Sister Rose Marie, a Franciscan sister who lives and works in New York City. "Rose Marie was the oldest of our four children," said Mrs. Pellagra. "She was very smart and was always winning awards. We were a close-knit, very religious family and she was adored. I worried because she had it so good. How would she adapt to all the rules and restrictions?"

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