Diamond Jubilee portrait of Sister Olivia Schaefer, O.S.B., August 6, 1994. Sister Olivia turned 81 on September 21, 1994.
"Elsie Elizabeth Schaefer was born in Chicago on September 21, 1913. ... At age eighteen, on September 7, 1932, Elsie joined the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago at St. Scholastic Monasatery. The following summer, on July 11, 1933, she received the habit and was given the name Sister Olivia. She professed her triennial vows in...