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- ↑ Local nuns to attend beatification in Rome. Amarillo Globe-News
- ↑ Burns, Paul. Butler's Lives of the Saints. Liturgical Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8146-1837-5. P.63
- ↑ "A Country, a Story, a Woman", Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate
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