Albertina Schildknecht was born in Switzerland on October 4, 1864. She was invested with the religious habit on November 21, 1885, made her first profession on December 15, 1886 and perpetual vows on November 21, 1893.

Sister is remembered as a very prayerful member of our community, a true contemplative. Those who were younger members at the time recall her ever-ready smile, her spirit of joy, and the light that shone in her eyes when she spoke. They were deeply edified by her punctuality and zeal for the Divine Office, her fervor for adoration and her generosity in taking the harder hours at night; also her fidelity to the rule of silence - not in a rigid but in a gentle way. In encouraging fidelity to the Rule, she would say: "By a hair of your neck you have wounded My Heart," and interpreted lack of fidelity in little things as being wanting in the love pledged to our Lord.

Sister's assignment of obedience was the sewing of habits. Each day she would pray the rosary (15 decades) aloud with the others while they did hand-sewing. It gave her a special joy to make the habits for the new brides at their investment. While fitting them, she would speak to them of the dignity and privilege of being a bride of Christ and the reverence they ought to show for their religious garb as their bridal gown.

Sister was taken ill suddenly and sent to the hospital for treatment of what seemed to assume the form of a brain tumor. She died after two weeks in the hospital, on July 5, 1921, at the age of fifty-seven.