Edwards, Priscilla (1927-2011)

Priscilla Edwards was born on April 12, 1927. Orphaned and with tuberculosis, Priscilla was not expected to live. She spent the first five years of her life in a children's hospital before moving from foster home to foster home in Malden, Massachusetts, USA.

Priscilla became a Roman Catholic in 1953, moved to Canada in 1963 with a sense of call to the Madonna House ministry in Combermere, ON and was missioned by the community to Marion House, Edmonton, AB in 1965. There Priscilla served among inner city people for over a decade. In 1977 she discovered her call to Hospital Ministry, took required courses at St. Paul's University in Ottawa through the generosity of the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton, was appointed by Archbishop MacNeil to visit and bring Holy Communion to Roman Catholic patients and families at the University of Alberta Hospital where she served as Chaplain for over 30 years.