Evelyn jegen rc biography

          Evelyn Jegen, RC, sister.

        1. Evelyn Jegen, RC, sister.
        2. Jegen was born on Oct. 11, , in Chicago as Julia Anna to Julian and Evelyn (Bostelmann) Jegen.
        3. February 15, – July 4, Marilyn Jegen was the second of five children in a family that encouraged creativity and learning.
        4. Sister Evelyn Jegen, from St. Robert Bellarmine Parish, was a spiritual director and served in Chicago as provincial superior.
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          6. February 15, – July 4, Marilyn Jegen was the second of five children in a family that encouraged creativity and learning....

          IN MEMORIAM: Sr. Mary Evelyn Jegen – wisdom, humility and an indomitable spirit

          by Nancy Small
          Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace

          Sr.

          Mary Evelyn Jegen was a shining beacon who illumined the world of peacemaking with wisdom, humility and an indomitable spirit. Her writings opened the eyes and hearts of peacemakers around the world and advanced an understanding of peacemaking as a gospel imperative of the Catholic faith.

          She was born on Oct. 11, , in Chicago to Julian and Evelyn (Bostelmann) Jegen.

          She had an amazing ability to analyze the signs of the times and respond to them from a place of deep faith. Each time we spoke during my years as national coordinator, I was aware that I was in the presence of the woman who blazed the trail for all future national coordinators to walk.

          She offered me gentle encouragement and always a prophetic word of wisdom based on her reading of the signs of the times. Sometimes she called when we were hard at work planning the national assembly, and she would recite from memory the locations of each national assemb