Nun's spiritual ancestor bequeathed inner peace. (Americans in Rome - Sister of Notre Dame Maureen O'Brien) (Interview)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: April 2, 1993| Author: Jones, Arthur | Copyright information

ROME -- "Iggy, Iggy, you've got me talking to the ashes."

The scene was Okayama, Japan, in 1976 where Sister of Notre Dame Maureen O'Brien, a native of Boston, was addressing the little box at the foot of the statue of Our Lady.

The box contained the ashes of Sister Marie Ignatius -- Aiko Aoki -- the first Japanese Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, a woman who (along with Jesuit Father Bill Johnston in Tokyo) had helped O'Brien shed much of her Western cultural ...

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