 Sister
Katharina Tang, SDS, will celebrated her 60th
Jubilee of Religious Profession on Friday, September 10 at
the St. Anne’s Salvatorian Campus Chapel. A Mass of
Thanksgiving was held at 1:30 p.m. with a reception that
followed. Sister Katharina, a native of Foochow, China,
entered the Sisters of the Divine Savior novitiate in her
home diocese.
She worked in the mission in Shaowu
and received training and a certificate to be a midwife.
After the Communists gained control of China, a group of
Chinese Sisters, including Sister Katharina, came to the
United States in 1949. She made her profession of vows in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1950.
Sister Katharina served in child
ministry in Sisseton, South Dakota; as a seamstress at the
SDS Motherhouse in Milwaukee; then in the nursery and
pediatric departments at St. Mary’s Hospital, Columbus,
Wisconsin.
In 1961, she became a citizen of the
United States and then was asked to serve as a missionary
in Taiwan with three other Chinese Sisters. She helped do
the church work for five parishes and several mission
stations staffed by the Salvatorian men. After a
dispensary was established on the Sisters’ grounds in Ilan,
Sister helped as a midwife assistant. She would later
serve as cook in the kindergarten and with convent
hospitality. She described her years of service. “My life
has been filled with joy helping others.”
When the Sisters’ mission in Taiwan
closed, Sister Katharina returned to the North American
Province in 2010 and lives at the Salvatorian Sisters
Residence in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
