Radio Interview: The amazing life of Sister Mary Wilhelmina

When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles, were preparing to reinter the remains of Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, their foundress, in rural Missouri, they made an amazing discovery.

When the sisters exhumed Sister Wilhelmina’s remains this spring four years after her death, the body didn’t seem at all decayed and her religious habit was also still intact.

The news of what many consider to be a miracle made headlines around the world.

Sister Wilhelmina was a Black Catholic Sister who spent more than 50 years as a member of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence. She left that religious community to found the Benedictine Sister of Mary, Queen of Apostles.

Sister Wilhelmina’s Benedictine religious community wrote a book on the life of their foundress released by Tan Books. George Matysek talks with Benedictine Sister Mary Josefa Holcomb, one of the contributors to the book, about the amazing life of Sister Wilhelmina.

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