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26 deaths in 3 US convents, as nuns confront the pandemic
Read full article: 26 deaths in 3 US convents, as nuns confront the pandemicThis combination of photos provided by the School Sisters of St. Francis shows Sisters Annelda Holtkamp, Bernadette Kelter, Josephine Seier and Marie June Skender. (School Sisters of St. Francis via AP)LIVONIA, Mich. At a convent near Detroit, 13 nuns have died of COVID-19. The toll is seven at a center for Maryknoll sisters in New York, and six at a Wisconsin convent that serves nuns with fading memories. For weeks the Livonia nuns went without Mass and dined in shifts, only one per table. In her 20s she joined the School Sisters of St. Francis.