April 27, 2017
Dominican Sister Mary of the Compassion celebrated her 100th birthday April 20 with her community of cloistered Dominican Sisters of Corpus Christi Monastery, Menlo Park. On their website, the sisters called it “giving God praise for the gift her life … 100 years! Sister is an inspiration to us for her fidelity and faithfulness.” Sister Mary Compassion has been in religious life for 65 years and entered religious life at age 32, often kidding the sisters said that she was a late vocation.