Mowata native to celebrate 60th Jubilee Aug. 15

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Medical Mission Sister Isidora Bollich, M.M.S., a native of Mowata and former member of St. Lawrence Parish, will celebrate her 60th Jubilee on Aug. 15 at a special Mass and Reception at the Medical Mission Sisters’ North American Headquarters in Philadelphia.
Sister Isidora graduated from the S.W. Louisiana Institute and worked as a secretary before entering the Medical Mission Sisters in 1952. She made her First Profession of Vows in 1955 and her Final Vows in 1960.
Her first mission assignment was to Venezuela where she provided support services for her Community in Maracaibo. She also served as an accountant at a leprosarium in Ghana, West Africa. From 1975-1977 Sister Isidora was secretary for her Community’s international leadership team in Rome. She then returned to Venezuela.
Over the next 25 years Sister Isidora was in mission as a pastoral care worker in the poor barrios of Barquisimeto and as secretary to the Medical Mission Sisters’ Superior General in London.
She repatriated to Philadelphia, in 2003. In recent years, she has assisted in parish work, visited the sick, taught English as a second language and ministered to the elderly in a senior day care center.
The Medical Mission Sisters are an international Religious Community of women committed to a mission of healing in areas of need throughout the world. Founded in 1925 by Austrian-born Doctor Anna Dengel, they were the first Roman Catholic Sisters to combine the practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics with the Religious life. The nearly 600 Sisters and 100 Associate members serve as a healing presence in 17 countries around the world.