The Sisters of the Holy Family

Commemorate the 100th Anniversary

of the Death of their Foundress

August 2, 2005

On her death bed Sister Dolores could look out over a city that she had enriched in many ways, but which still held poor, unfortunate and suffering families in large numbers.  What she had done she had done for the love of God.  She had no Bay Area Crusade, no salary to help support her work.  She began works whenever they seemed to be needed and terminated them when their purpose was past.  She distinguished not at all between persons of wealth or of poverty except in the administration of her earthly treasures.  Her spirit was the Spirit of ?the One she loved best.?

Sister  Dolores? riches were not in accumulated bank deposits. Instead, her wealth was in her love and faithfulness to the vision she had first acknowledged as a young woman bringing forth a fledgling community into a new and perilous way of being far different than those known in her tradition-bound world, and others, as we too have done, caught that spirit and in turn, passed it on.

For a copy of the booklet Commemorating Sr. Dolores death contact archives@holyfamilysisters.org