Convent near Milwaukee loses eight sisters to COVID in one week aleteia.org

COVID-19 has hit a Wisconsin convent particularly hard, claiming the lives of eight sisters in one week — with four dying on the same day.

The School Sisters of Notre Dame convent in Elm Grove, about 10 miles west of Milwaukee, confirmed their losses to NBC affiliate TMJ4.

Sister Debra Sciano, provincial leader of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific, told TMJ4 that the eight sisters were all educators and “role models” who dedicated their lives to the community…

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