Quote of the Day: Sister Mary de Paul
“We’ve always felt very connected in a sense to our founders’ mother and father. Taking care of the deceased is an act of mercy, and it’s an act of our faith.”
-Sister Mary de Paul of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, explaining why her order paid to move the remains of poet Nathaniel Hawthorne’s wife, Sofia, and his daughter, Una, from London to Hawthorne’s grave in Concord, Mass., after 142 years. The order of nuns was founded by Hawthorne’s other daughter, Rose. She was quoted by The New York Times.
