[3][4] Duss became "Sister Benedict" (Soeur Benoit) when she entered a French Benedictine abbey, Notre Dame de Jouarre, in 1936, the day after finishing her medical training.
[5] She worked as a doctor and teacher in Jouarre, and (facing the danger of capture, as an American) went into hiding for part of the town's Nazi occupation during World War II.
[7][8] Duss and Mother Mary Aline Trilles de Warren moved to the United States in 1946, and founded the Regina Laudis monastic community in 1947, near the farm of artists Lauren Ford and Frances W. Delehanty in Bethlehem, Connecticut.
[9] The community's founding inspired the movie Come to the Stable (1949), starring Loretta Young and Celeste Holm.
[1] [dead link] *A photograph of Mother Benedict Duss and the nuns of Regina Laudis, at Getty Images.