Very fond memories last Friday on the anniversary of the deaths of two quite special women/community members. One was Benedicta Riepp herself, the young German woman who led the first group of Benedictine women to the USA in the 1850s. She only lived 10 years in the "new world." Her gravesite is well worth visiting---it's at St. Benedict Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota, about 60 or so miles west of Minneapolis.
The other is Mary David Callahan, musician extraordinaire, whose songs and hymns are with us daily in the form of the opening hymn or the Benedictus or the Magnificat every day. She died on March 15, 2005.
Here she is caught at rehearsal with one of her many choirs.
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