Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Boniface Lauth CSC

July 19, 1848 – June 11, 1937

South Bend Tribune 6/11/1937

Death late this morning claimed Sister M. Boniface CSC, 88, one of the oldest nuns in the order of the Holy Cross at St. Mary’s College. She died in the convent infirmary after a lingering illness of the last six months. She was born (as Mary Lauth) in Luxembourg July 19, 1848, and entered the convent here in 1866. She took the holy habit that same year and professed her vows in 1869. She was the eight of a family of 12 children. Four of her brothers became priests in the Order of Holy Cross; a sister, Sister M. Susanna CSC, was a member of the Sister of the Holy Cross; and another as a religious in France. Sever nieces were sisters in the same order, and two nephews were priest were priests in the Benedictine order. She taught German at St. Mary’s Academy here in her early years, and later taught in Alexandria, Va.; and Washington DC. She was a pioneer in the Austin, Texas community, and later taught in Michigan City and South Bend schools. Of late years, since her retirement from teaching, she has held other assignments at St. Mary’s.

She was an aunt of Mother M. Genevra CSC, mother superior  of the Holy Cross Convent at St. Mary’s, and was a great-aunt of Sister M. Gertrude Aloise CSC of Hammond, Ind.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Sunday in the convent chapel of Our Lady of Loretto, with internment in the convent cemetery.