Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Ambrosine Braum CSC

Dec. 14, 1898 – Nov. 22, 1983

South Bend Tribune 11/23/1983

Sister M. Ambrosine CSC, 84, of St. Mary’s Convent, died there Tuesday afternoon after a brief illness. She was born on Dec. 14, 1898 in Decatur, Ind. as Margaret Mary Braum, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross on Feb. 11, 1934. She was received as a novice Aug. 15, 1934 and professed her final vows Aug. 16, 1936. She was graduated from the former St. Joseph Academy in 1925 and St. Mary’s College in 1929. She received a degree in library science from Rosary College, River Forest, Ill. in 1949. Prior to her entry in the congregation she taught in South Bend public schools. Her teaching assignments while in the congregation included St. Joseph Academy, St. Joseph High School and St. Mary’s Academy all in South Bend, as well as schools throughout Indiana and Michigan. She became a resident of Our Lady of Holy Cross Convent in 1878, and later that year she was transferred to St. Mary’s Convent, where she was living at the time of her death.

Friends may call up to the time of services in the convent parlors where rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Our Lady of Loretto Church, with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus.