Christina's humble life of adoration and praise began with her birth on Aug. 24, 1913 in Clasco, KS. She was one of three children born to Antoinette (La Rocque) and Wilfred Bonneau. Her childhood had all the earmarks of being very “ordinary” and “down to earth” just a Kansas farm gift is how she would refer to herself later in life.

Christina was 26 years old when she responded to the fall to Monastic life, entering at Clyde on Aug. 28, 1939. Her Profession of vows was on Aug. 31, 1941. Final Monastic profession was Aug. 31, 1946. Sister’s humble life of adoration was her greatest joy whether she was occupied doing work in the garden, the Altar Bread Department, and praise in choir. 

She once said of herself: “I think the farmer in me as a very important role. To love everybody, all living things, the sun, the rain, the sky, the clouds and good mother earth. The birds, animals, trees and the flowers, the hills and rivers. God’s gift to my heart, mind and being, is growing into love, deep love.”

When she learned that she had terminal cancer. She dealt with this news about herself as she dealth with most of life, with gusto, and a knowing conviction that all was as it should be. She taught us in very many ways what it meant to keep death daily before one's eyes, not in a morbid sense, but in joyful anticipation of going to her true home. 

Christina had requested that we sing "How Great Thou Art" for her funeral, so we dutifully gathered spontaneously after lunch to practice it. And just as spontaneously decided that we would go directly over to her room and sing it for her! About 20 or so of us gathered around her bed and were particularly touched to know that she heard us and hummed along with us!

Many of us watched and waited with Sister into the evening. It was in the quiet stillness of the early morning on February 11 that she went home to God. The hour of her death happened to be the same time that she went each morning to chapel to pray.