Mary Margaret Gefre was born in Strasburg, North Dakota, on November 6, 1929, as the eighth of twelve children.
[5] Gefre entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1948 at the age of 19, taking the religious name Rosalind the following year.
She began to study massage therapy and spent more than 1,000 hours training in both Aberdeen, South Dakota, and Saint Paul.
[7][4] Two days later, a vice squad temporarily closed the practice as unlicensed, citing a law seeking to prevent prostitution.
[7] Despite running a professional and non-sexual clinic, Gefre occasionally received calls from persons looking to "talk dirty to a nun"; on one such occasion, Gefre rebuked the man, stating "one of these days you'll die and you'll be face to face with the Lord.
[13] She operated massage clinics in Minneapolis, Edina, Saint Paul, and White Bear Lake, and ran massage schools in West Saint Paul and Fargo, North Dakota.
[16] In 1993, Gefre began to offer massages at the baseball games of the newly-formed minor league St. Paul Saints team.