October 6, 2023

Former archdiocesan young adult Catholic professes perpetual religious vows

Franciscan Sister M. Evangeline Rutherford ritually receives a ring from Bishop Joseph N. Perry, at the time an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, during an Aug. 3 Mass at the chapel of St. Francis Convent in Mishawaka, Ind., during which she professed perpetual vows as a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration. Assisting Bishop Perry is Nick Monin, a seminarian of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. Looking on is Franciscan Sister Margaret Mary Mitchel, right, provincial superior of the Perpetual Adoration Franciscans based in Mishawaka. (Submitted photo)

Franciscan Sister M. Evangeline Rutherford ritually receives a ring from Bishop Joseph N. Perry, at the time an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, during an Aug. 3 Mass at the chapel of St. Francis Convent in Mishawaka, Ind., during which she professed perpetual vows as a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration. Assisting Bishop Perry is Nick Monin, a seminarian of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. Looking on is Franciscan Sister Margaret Mary Mitchel, right, provincial superior of the Perpetual Adoration Franciscans based in Mishawaka. (Submitted photo)

Criterion staff report

Franciscan Sister M. Evangeline Rutherford professed perpetual vows as a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration based in Mishawaka, Ind., on Aug. 2 in the chapel of St. Francis Convent in Mishawaka.

A native of Portland, Mich., Sister Evangeline, 31, currently ministers at Franciscan Health Lafayette in Lafayette, Ind., in its laboratory and service excellence department. The Perpetual Adoration Franciscans operate the hospital.

After graduating from St. Patrick High School in Portland, Mich., Sister Evangeline earned a bachelor’s degree in clinical laboratory science at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich.

Before entering religious life in 2015, she was a member of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis and worked in a laboratory at Franciscan Health Indianapolis. †

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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