Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Sister Mary Victorine Phillips CSC

1874 – Feb. 18, 1956

 

South Bend Tribune 2/20/1956

Sister Mary Victorine CSC, died Saturday in the Motherhouse of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St. Mary’s College after a long illness. She was born Emma C. Phillips in East St. Louis, Ill. in 1874. She entered the Congregation in 1901, making her final profession in 1907. She had been stationed in missions of the order in Fresno, Calif.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Columbus, Ohio; and at St. Mary’s.

 

A requiem high mass was sung this morning in the convent chapel and burial was in the community cemetery.