Mother Maribel of Wantage

On the death of her father she, her mother and older brother moved to Southwold in Suffolk where she attended Saint Felix School.

St Faith's church in Great Crosby holds her carving 'Rabbit Madonna' which takes its name from the rabbits at the feet of Mary and where the figure of the infant Jesus is a toe short on his right foot.

In March 1945 she travelled by troopship to visit the Order's branch houses in India and South Africa, returning to the UK by aeroplane 11 months later.

During her last years as Mother General she visited the Order's branch houses in the UK and returned to those in India and South Africa.

[10] A cast of her statue of Francis of Assisi with the Wolf of Gubbio can be found at St Margaret's church in Northam in Devon.