Secularised Sisters Strip Their Foundress of Her Habit
The choice fell on Lourdes Gorostola (photo). She is not called "Sister Lourdes" and will be in charge for the next six years.
It is noteworthy that the new Superior General can be seen in a photo with a picture of the Foundress, Blessed Sister Margarita Maria Lopez De Maturana (+1934). However, Blessed Sister Margarita is not shown as nun but dressed in her secular cloths before she entered religious life.
Blessed Sister was the superior of the cloistered convent of Mercedarian nuns in Berriz, Basque Country, Spain, founded in 1540. She received permission from the Holy See to convert the nuns into apostolic sisters.
As a sister, of course, she always wore the habit. However, after the failed Second Vatican Council, her sisters secularised, exchanging the religious habit for secular clothing. Now they are in the process of extinction.
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