‘A Month of Tragedy’: Convent Loses 13 Sisters to COVID-19

When word spread in the spring that the novel coronavirus had infiltrated a convent near Detroit housing the Congregation of Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice, the residents there swiftly prepared for the worst. At the time, about 60 sisters called the convent in Livonia, Mich., home — and a number of them were elderly, having devoted decades of their lives to the congregation.