Mary Ambrose O'Donald

Biography

Mary Ambrose O'Donald joined the Sisters of Providence community with a gift for gentle leadership, investing her life in the convent’s ministries after being born in 1832. Her days were filled with teaching, counsel, and a steady witness of faith, earning admiration from newcomers and longtime companions alike.

She offered a mirror of faith to generations of postulants, and although she passed in 1917, the warmth of her faithful service endures in the stories of those who walked beside her.