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Madeleva Wolff
Sister M. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., (May 24, 1887 – July 25, 1964), the "lady abbess of nun poets", was the third President of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
Life
Sister Madeleva was born in Cumberland, Wisconsin, in 1887, and christened Mary Evaline Wolff.[1] Her father, August Wolff, was a Lutheran and a saddle and harness maker, who was twice mayor of Cumberland.
Madeleva a biography of shakespeare
He read poetry to Mary Evaline. Madeleva’s mother, Lucy, was a devout Catholic. Mary Evaline learned how to handle pliers, tacks and hammers. She climbed thorn apple trees, diagrammed wildflowers and in winter ice-skated from morning to night.
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At school, she "lived to learn, and so lived richly," she wrote in one of her books, My First Seventy Years.
Madeleva decided to become a religious sister during her first semester at Saint Mary's College. She was given the name "Madeleva" upon her acceptance into the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1908 and took her final vows whe