Catherine Eberhard was born in Baden, Germany on December 27, 1878. She entered at Clyde in November, 1903 and was invested on May 26, 1904. On July 2, 1905 she was professed as Sister M. Dominica and made perpetual vows on January 13, 1912. She was an older sister of Sister M. Irmengard, who was professed in 1911 and who died in 1958; also of Father Alphonse of Conception Abbey.

For many years Sister was cook in the Clyde infirmary, and was the pioneer cook at the foundation in Chewelah, Washington where she spent five years, from 1914 to 1919. For twenty-seven years she was a member of our Mundelein community, and loved to recall that during her stay there she had spent 18,000 hours in formal adoration.

Sister worked diligently in the altar bread department and when no longer able, clipped cancelled stamps from envelopes, prepared enclosures for letters for the Correspondence Department and did other small tasks. She stayed at the Kansas City infirmary while the Clyde infirmary was being renovated in 1961, and appreciated being able to go to the adoration chapel in a wheelchair and to pray in the balcony in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed.

Like her sister, Sister M. Irmengard, she was afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis, which totally disabled her in her later years and caused her intense suffering. Sister bore all very patiently, and gladly offered her sufferings for the various intentions recommended to her prayers, particularly to obtain good and holy priests to work in Christ's vineyard.

Sister M. Dominica died at Clyde on December 20, 1968 at the age of eighty-four.