St. Rose of Lima Note

My aunt Betty (also my godmother), who was an R.N., received a calling to join the Hawthorn Dominicans, which is a nursing order dedicated to caring for terminally ill cancer patients. (Becoming Sister Mary Teresita, O.P., she passed away a few years ago on St. Dominic's feast day, a few weeks short of her 50th jubilee.) The order was founded by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa), the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne and a convert to Catholicism. The order has a devotion to St. Rose of Lima, and the chapel at the motherhouse on Rosary Hill in Hawthorne, NY, is named after her.

For more information about the order:
      Hawthorne Dominicans