Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Marie Pius of Christ the King, Sr., O.S.C.
Other form(s) of name
- Sr. Marie Pius of Christ the King
Description area
History
Sr. Marie Pius writes from the Monastery of Saint Clare in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the first African-American admitted to the Poor Clares in the United States. She was suffering from a terminal illness at the time of writing to Merton.