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Today’s missionary hero is Dominican Sister Sheila Corcoran.
Sr. Sheila Corcoran from Kilorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, was a teacher who served as a missionary and teacher in South Africa for 50 years.
Sr. Sheila arrived in South Africa on March 3, 1949, her 21stbirthday, and received her education as a teacher at the University of Stellenbosch. There, she also learned the Afrikaans language.
Sister Sheila taught for many years in school that focused on poor children. Then, when she became deaf, she trained as a remedial teacher at the University of Cape Town and assisted individual black children.
One day, however, a man with a knife entered the Dominican convent of Holy Rosary in Port Elizabeth where Sr. Sheila was the bursar and began attacking another member of the order, Sr. Margaret Close. Sr. Sheila tried to protect Sr. Margaret, and in the process, Sr. Sheila suffered a broken collar bone and shattered elbow. Though she made a partial recovery, she died from pneumonia on July 18, 2000. The police are treating Sister Sheila’s death as murder.
Sr. Sheila is buried in South Africa where she served a half a century.
