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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Stefano Esposito

101-year-old St. Anne’s Convent to close

A mover hauls a statue of the Virgin Mary and St. Anne out of the Order of St. Anne’s convent on North LaSalle Drive on Wednesday. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

An old mahogany china cabinet. A manual typewriter. A life-size plaster statue of the Virgin Mary and St. Anne — yellowed and flaking.

And as burly men hauled these and many other items down the front steps of the brick convent to a moving van last week, Sister Judith Mandrath remained in prayer inside the tiny chapel on the building’s second floor.

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