Hazel Ida Adrian was born in Belleville, Illinois on October 15, 1909, the oldest of the six children of Anton Martin Adrian and Elizabeth Mary (Hubschmidt) Adrian. Baptized October 24, 1909 at St. Luke’s Church in Belleville, she also attended school there. Later she took night classes at a business college for one year and was employed in a factory for a time. 

She entered the Clyde community on May 6, 1938. She had wanted to enter the convent earlier but being the oldest in the family she felt responsible to remain with her family to help out. When she professed first vows on January 27, 1940 she received a special Benedictine name, Sr. M. Scholastica, then lived out more than 55 years in monastic life ever faithful to those Benedictine values to which she freely committed herself through her perpetual vows on February 3, 1945.

As a young sister she helped at the chicken house for some months, then worked in the garden and at the butcher house for many years. The farm work often demanded a change in the meal schedule for those involved, and summer garden work often meant missing community recreation as well. 

Sr. M. Scholastica always loved community life and missed being with them at these times. And being herself "a city girl" the farm work was not a natural gift or a personal choice. But whether doing the garden, kitchen, bakery, altar bread, or bookkeeping task, the choice she always made was to live generously and willingly in obedience. Once she was asked: "If you could tell all your sisters something special that you have learned in your life, what would it be"? She responded: Just take the things that come along as they are. Do the will of God".

From November 1962-65 she served the community as subprioress at Clyde when Sr. M. Tharsilla was prioress. She moved to Tucson in 1968, to Mundelein in 1975, and returned to Clyde in 1978. She lived in Kansas City from 1981 until she moved into St. Benedict Health Care community in April 1984. Those who lived with her remember her prayerfulness, patience, quiet presence and a radiant, ever-ready smile. After long hours at her assigned tasks, she was always eager for time in chapel where she found her rest in prayer and adoration.

Sr. M. Scholastica was still communicating with a happy heart and a radiant smile when being cared for by the nursing staff moments before her death. Even though "every day is a good day to die" it seemed that the Feast of the Epiphany was the most appropriate day for Sr. M. Scholastica. This "wise woman" had been seeking God with anxious love as she followed the bright star of a listening response to the will of God. Her pace quickened at the end of that long journey, and we should not have been surprised by this. Her final response to God’s will for her followed the pattern of her entire life: it was made with "unhesitating obedience."

Funeral liturgy was celebrated in the St. Louis monastery chapel on January 4, 1994 with burial at Mt. Calvary cemetery at Clyde the following day.