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Sister Ephrem (Rita) Hollermann
Biography:
Sister Ephrem (Rita) Hollermann, O.S.B., Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota. As a church historian, her specific area of expertise is American Benedictine women’s history. She is the author of The Reshaping of a Tradition: American Benedictine Women: 1852-1881. Currently, she resides at Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, Minnesota, and is writing the history of the first Benedictine women’s monastery in North America, founded in St. Marys, Pennsylvania.
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