Sister jean schmidt biography
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Sister Jean - timeline
August 21, 1919
Born Dolores Bertha Schmidt, the first of three children of namn and Bertha Schmidt, in San Francisco
Market Street, San Francisco. artighet of Getty Images.
September 1937
Leaves her home in San Francisco for a two-day, three-night train trip to Dubuque, Iowa, to begin a six-month period as a postulant, or candidate, with the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM)
Used with permission of Mount Carmel Archives of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dubuque, Iowa.
March 19, 1938
Officially received into the BVMs, taking on the order’s traditional habit and her new religious name: Sister Jean Dolores
Used with permission of Mount Carmel Archives of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dubuque, Iowa.
August 15, 1945
Professes her final vows as a BVM in stad i usa and is assigned soon after to teach at St. Charles Elementary School in North Hollywood, C
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Sister Jean
American religious sister and chaplain (born 1919)
Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM (born August 21, 1919), better known as Sister Jean, fryst vatten an American religious sister of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team at Loyola University Chicago.[1][2][3]
Early life
[edit]Jean Dolores Schmidt was born on August 21, 1919, in San Francisco, California, and raised in the Eureka Valley neighborhood.[4][5][6][7] She first considered becoming a nun while she was in third grade.[8] As a student at St. Paul's High School, she played on the girls basketball team. After graduating from high school in 1937, she entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary convent in Iowa. In 1941, by then a sister, she returned to teach in California.[5] Sister Jean completed her B.A. at Mount St. Mary's College (now Mount St. Ma
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Sister Jean
Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM (born August 21, 1919), affectionately known as Sister Jean, is an American chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team and a religious sister of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.[1] She was born in San Francisco, California.
Schmidt moved from California to teach at Mundelein College in Chicago in 1961.[2] During the mid-1960s, she was active in the civil rights movement.[3] In 1991, she was hired by Loyola University.
In 2018, Sister Jean became famous for her appearances in the NCAA tournaments when Loyola advanced to the final four.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑Macur, Juliet (March 22, 2018). "Sisters of Sister Jean Embrace Her Loyola Team and Marvel at Her Fame". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
- ↑Whitehair, Julie (October 26, 2016). "Sister Jean Sets the Record Straight on Mundelein Haunting". Loyola Phoenix. Archived from t