====== McKenna, Teresa Elizabeth ====== 
 (9 July 1885-14 Dec. 1976), named Sister St. Charles and Sister Mary St. Charles, member of religious community, Precious Blood sister. Born at Colgan, Ontario. Parents: Dr Charles McKenna and his wife Mary Anne Derham. Her training included education by the Loretto Sisters in Toronto. In 1922 she entered the Precious Blood Monastery in Toronto. She was superior of monasteries of the Precious Blood in Toronto, Vancouver and Bellevue, Ohio, before coming to Alexandria as superior in 1958. For the remainder of her life the monastery in Alexandria was her home. She was the foundress of the monastery of which she was superior in Bellevue. Sister St. Charles died at the monastery in Alexandria, and was buried in the cemetery at the monastery grounds, Alexandria. She painted the stained glass windows of the monastery chapel in Alexandria. Her obituary noted that she had painted “many of the Christmas cards sent out from the monastery this year.”


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<fs small>//Glengarry News// 16 & 22 Dec. 1976 * //History of the Foundation of ‘Our Lady of the Rosary’ Monastery in Alexandria, Ontario: The Chisholm Memorial Monastery of the Precious Blood// (1985?) esp. 22-23, 29-30, 35, 39, 43, 54-55 * picture of the stained glass windows painted by her, //GN// 7 April 1977
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