Christina Lesch was born in Germany, August 9, 1883. She entered our convent February 7, 1903 at the age of twenty, was invested with the habit on October 23, 1903, made her first profession December 19, 1904 and perpetual vows January 13, 1912. She was consecrated a virgin at Tucson with the large group there Jan. 6, 1953.

Sister was a dynamic person and an indefatigable worker, despite much sickness. For a time she worked on a farm, then in the correspondence department, a very good letter-writer. She did artistic embroidery and crocheted innumerable cinctures, laces for altar cloths, surplices, etc., continuing to crochet to the very end while propped up in bed. She had a cheerful disposition and a quick wit that often took people off guard. For example, when taking her oral examination for citizenship around the time of World War I, she was asked: "Have you any weapons?" Unhesitatingly she answered: "YES! Two!" holding up her two clenched fists before the surprised official.

Sister was an example of patient suffering for many years; always cheerful, with a song on her lips, and ready for a jest even when gravely ill. She had a spirit of fortitude that never flinched in the face of hardships or trials. Spontaneous prayer flowed readily from her heart, and she loved the Rosary and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Everything she did was placed in charge of a patron saint, on whose help she relied.

Sister spent twenty-two years at our Tucson convent, where one of her charges was to care for the rabbits which for a time the community raised as a source of income. Many humorous incidents could be recounted. She also taught catechism to poor children and prepared them for First Communion.

In a letter to Rev. Mother written from Tucson, about a year before her death, expressing willingness to be taken home to the Clyde Infirmary, she wrote: "Today is the anniversary of my first Holy Communion in 1896. How happy I was then! But I am happier today to think I am so close to my Eternal Communion with Jesus in heaven. I have had a long, long way of the cross these seventy-six years of my life. Yet God was always with me and gave me many undeserved graces, for which it will take an eternity to thank the Blessed Trinity. When I am up there, all safely wrapped in His mercy and love, I will not be lazy, for I'll have work for my sisters on earth. I could not be happy if I could not help them."

Sister died at the Clyde Infirmary September 7,  1960, at the age of seventy-seven.