Dormition of the Theotokos Chicago Heroes Columbus and Cuneo Hospitals (staffed

Columbus and Cuneo Hospitals (staffed by the nursing sisters of the M

she packed her bags and set off for Ireland where she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Loreto

is above the lower with the rocks

Thea Bowman and the only black sister in the congregation

Caryll herself was fully received into the Church

Dormition of the Theotokos Chicago Heroes Columbus and Cuneo Hospitals (staffedAugust 15th The Dormition, or Falling Asleep, of the Theotokos commemorates the death of the Virgin in the home of St. John the Evangelist, to whom she was given by Jesus from the Cross. For centuries it was believed the Virgin and St. John lived in Ephesus but contemporary biblical scholarship points to Jerusalem. The Theotokos, lying in the sleep of death on a bier, is surrounded by the grieving apostles as well as the holy women and early bishops