Anthony Salamone

Mercy Sister Rose Mary Malague said she encountered no challenges in becoming a religious. More than 30 years after entering the Sisters of Mercy religious order, however, she faced a health trial. “In 1981, I had a ruptured brain aneurysm while I was in the midst of my teaching career,” recalled Sister Rose, who became a Mercy Sister in 1948.

As a teenager, Mercy Sister Helen Neder thought her lifelong calling would involve caring for the sick, even though she had been exposed to religious life at her parish, St. James, Woodbridge.