A 92-year-old nun who has pledged silence, loneliness and poverty has died in the same monastery where she has lived for the past thirty years.
However, the whole story of Sister Marie Joseph 's life is not traditional.
Before entering the world of worship, she was called Ann Russell Miller, a wealthy San Francisco socialist who spent wonderful parties, bought tickets for the entire opera season, and was the mother of 10 children.
Ann was born in 1928, and Ann dreamed of becoming a nun, but she fell in love.
At the age of 20, she married Richard Miller, who became vice president of Pacific Gas & Electric.
Marie Joseph Sister's youngest son Mark Miller tweeted last week after the death of his mother that he had five children at the age of 27, and then had five more, in some way: a separate basketball team from each gender . She called it a planned family.
“He had millions of friends,” he wrote. She smoked, drank, and played cards.
"He was driving so fast and recklessly that the passengers in the seat were scared by applying imaginative brakes for fear of the man sitting in the seat."
Your son says he quit smoking, alcohol, and caffeine in one day.
Anne grew up in her family's nine-room mansion overlooking the Bay of San Francisco. She was famous for taking her friends on ski vacations, luxury boat trips, and archaeological shows in the Mediterranean.
At one point he was a member of 22 different boards of directors and raised money for college students, the homeless, and the Roman Catholic Church.
Her husband died of cancer in 1984, after which she began to consider joining the Christian nuns.
Five years later, she abandoned all her possessions and went to the monastery of the Sisters of Illinois and Lady Mount Carmel.
Nuns only leave the caramel of the monastery when absolutely necessary, such as when they need to see a doctor. These nuns only speak when they need to and spend most of their time meditating and praying.
“She was a nun,” Mark says. He could not sing well, he was often late to fulfill his responsibilities.
“I’ve only seen it twice in the last 33 years, and when you go to see it you can’t hold it or touch it,” he says. There are obstacles between you. '
NK had 28 grandchildren, some of whom she had never met, and more than a dozen grandchildren, none of whom had been fed.
He slept on a wooden plank with a slender ass. During the day, she wore a rough brown dress and sandals, completely unlike her previous life, which were filled with silk umbrellas, scarves, and versatile shoes.
Ann said goodbye to her friends, family and big world by hosting a party for 800 guests at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco on her 61st birthday. They ate expensive seafood and the orchestra played music for the guests. Anne is said to have been disturbed by flowers and a helium balloon with the words “I am here” so that people could easily find her and say goodbye at a crowded party.
He told his guests that he had dedicated the first 30 years of his life to himself and the next 30 years to his children. The last and third part of your life will be dedicated to God. The next day she went to Chicago to live in the monastery as Sister Marie Joseph.
“Our relationship was complicated,” says his son Mark.
He was born in the 1920s and died in the 1920s of the following century. She was Anne Russell Miller and Sister Marie Joseph.
"I hope she says hello to my father on my behalf."
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