Sister Antoinette Damato, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, L.I., for 70 years, died April 5.
Sister Antoinette Damato, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, L.I., for 70 years, died April 5.
In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed were known as “martyr-confessors.”
Cardinal Georges Cottier, O.P., former theologian of the papal household, died March 31 at the age of 93.
Sister Mary McKenna, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 80 years, died in St. Joseph’s Convent, on March 18.
Lorraine Gilley, the mother of Father Charles Gilley, I.V. Dei., a priest of the Voluntas Dei Institute, who resides at St. Patrick’s rectory, Long Island City, died March 28.
Sister Patricia Clare Barry, O.P., (Sister M. Francis Magdalen), 84, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, L.I., for 64 years, died March 28.
Jean Stamm Portnoy, the sister of Deacon Peter Stamm of Sacred Heart parish, East Glendale, died March 23 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Theresa Gaylord Weber, the mother-in-law of Deacon Ronald Ronacher of St. Rita’s parish, East New York, died March 18.
Sister Mary Ruth Hill, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 79 years, died in Bishop Kearney Convent, Feb. 29.
Sister Philothea Larisch, O.P., 83 and a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville for 58 years, died March 16.