Sister jean dolores schmidt biography of jose

August 21,

Born Dolores Bertha Schmidt, the first of three children of Joseph and Bertha Schmidt, in San Francisco

Market Street, San Francisco.

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September

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,

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,

Professes her final vows as a BVM in Dubuque and is assigned soon after to teach at St.

Charles Elementary School in North Hollywood, California. She s