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 Sr.
Marian Keane
, OP
(Sr. Charles Borromeo)
Diamond Jubilarian
60 years (July 9, 1947)
Sr. Marian Keane (formerly Sr. Charles Borromeo) grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and knew the Dominican Sisters as her teachers from St. Mary's High School and Albertus Magnus College. She graduated from Albertus with a degree in Elementary Education in 1940 and initially taught in public schools before entering St. Mary of the Springs in 1945. She made her first profession of vows in 1947 and this year celebrates 60 years as a Dominican Sister.
Upon completion of her Novitiate, Sr. Marian continued her love of education as a middleschool-level teacher throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. In 1969, she came to St. Andrew Avellino in Flushing, New York, for the first time and would later come to spend almost thirty years with the parish in different capacities. Initially, Sr. Marian was a teacher at St. Andrew. But, in 1972 she embarked on a new career when she began working in pastoral ministry at the parish, spending periodic summers studying theology to enhance her ministry. Even after her official retirement in 1981, Sr. Marian continued to minister in the parish and school, working with remedial reading students at the school, teaching CCD classes, working with the RCIA program, and coordinating parish efforts with the homeless. Sr. Marian was also active in the larger community of Flushing, ministering at the Bridgeview Nursing Home in addition to other volunteer work.
In 1999, Sr. Marian returned to Columbus, Ohio, where she has resided at Mohun Health Care Center ever since, embracing a ministry of prayer. In September 2007, she will celebrate her 99th birthday. |
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