Her two years at Villa Schifanoia (Florence, Italy) fulfilled a desire to study the art masterpieces in Europe. Mary of the Woods, Indiana Chicago Art Institute Catholic University of America Sophia University, Tokyo Creighton University, Nebraska and Steubenville University, Ohio. from Aquinas College (major in English) a certificate from the Theological Institute at Saint Paul’s Seminary, Saginaw Master of Fine Arts from the Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy other study at St. Sister Lois’s education was broad and international. After five years on the island she was assigned high school teaching at Holy Trinity, Alpine Holy Family and St. Her first mission was Beaver Island, an ideal place for her free spirit and delight in the outdoors. It was hard on her family, but “as each one left home, the next in line would take over with Grandma’s help.”Īt reception she took the name Lois. In September her grandmother came to live with the family so Colletta could return to school.ĭuring a retreat in her senior year Colletta felt the Lord gently but strongly calling her, and she responded by entering Marywood in 1936. ![]() A childless couple who had prayed 14 years for a baby adopted Tommy. Colletta promised her father to stay home from school to keep the family together - except for the five-month old baby who would be too much for her to handle. Early in the second semester of her sophomore year, after giving a party for Colletta’s 15th birthday, her mother became ill with pneumonia and died a week later. When she began high school, social life put thoughts of the convent out of her mind. She attended grade school at Sacred Heart Academy. ![]() Her father never told her about the doctor’s prediction until she won a scholarship to study art in Italy - “Then he thought I could ‘take it.”Īs a child Colletta liked to dress up as a Dominican Sister, using old sheets, baby diapers, or anything else she could find. She was preserved, she believed, by her parents’ deep faith and prayer life. 25, 1919), the doctor predicted that she would either die or be severely mentally disabled. This was the favorite scripture passage of Sister Lois Schaffer, a free-spirited artist who reflected that image in her person and through her paintings and mosaics.Ĭolletta Schaffer was the first of a family of six girls and two boys born to Frank and Cora Marguerite Fagel Schaffer in Mount Pleasant. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, and we, with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and brighter as we are turned into the image that we reflect” (2 Cor. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, and we, with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and brighter as we are turned into the image that we reflect.” 2 Corinthians 3:19 Sister Lois Schaffer Life Story & Obituary
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