Frances Geary grew up in a house full of noise and people, seven girls and six boys gathering in the kitchen each evening for the family Rosary, full of laughter and what she called its many trimmings. The Sisters who taught her brought a different kind of life into view, and when missionary priests visited…
One hundred and fifty years, across continents and lives
They left knowing the risks because the risks had already been named: fever, isolation, death. West Africa was not imagined. It was spoken about plainly, as a place where many did not survive long. They went anyway. The women who would become the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles entered mission with their bodies first.…

