Reminiscing Our Bygone Years – Mary Fields

Reminiscing Our Bygone Years – Mary Fields

One of the most colorful characters of St. Peter’s Mission and Cascade was Mary Fields, protégé of Mother Amadeus, Superior of the Ursuline Order at St. Peter’s Mission. Mary came to Montana in 1885 to care for the seriously ill nun. She had met Mother Amadeus when, after their mother died, she brought the children of Judge Edmund Dunne, brother of Mother Amadeus, to the Ursuline Convent at Toledo...