Background

Francis, Mother Mary was born on February 14, 1921 in St. Louis. Daughter of John Wolkiewicz and Anne Marie (Maher) A.

Education

Student, St. Louis University, 1942.

Career

Abbess Poor Clare Monastery, Roswell, New Mexico, since 1964. Federal abbess Federation Mary Immaculate, 1965-1971, 1977-1987. Foundress Poor Clare Monastery, Newport News, Virginia, 1972, Alexandria, Virginia, 1977, Belleville, Illinois, 1986, Elshout, Netherlands, 1990.

Achievements

• Mother Mary Francis has been listed as a noteworthy religious order administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • A right to be merry

    (This book was written by a Poor Clare Nun to give us some...)

  • A Right to Be Merry

    (Can life really be "merry" inside a Poor Clare cloister? ...)

  • A right to be merry.

    (The names of cloistered nuns and postulants used in the b...)

  • Catholic Family Book Club (St. Joan of Arc, A Right to Be Merry, Adventurer Saints, The Long Loneliness)

    (4 in 1 book)

  • Saint Joan of Arc, adventurer Saints, the Long Loneliness, a Right to be Merry
  • Where Caius Is and Other Poems
  • A Right to be Merry
  • A Right to be Merry

Connections

Father:

John Wolkiewicz A.

Mother:

Anne Marie (Maher) A.