Even before St. Dominic founded his preaching friars, he founded the cloistered nuns, whose prayers and sacrifices have sustained the Order’s mission since its inception. St. Catherine de Ricci and St. Margaret of Hungary rank among these. There have been innumerable Dominic teaching and nursing Sisters, among whom American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne’s daughter, Rose (Mother Alphonsa) Hawthorne Lathrop, is prominent.
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