Sister was a scion of the nobility, coining from one of the "best" families in Stans, Switzerland, where she was born on the feast of St. Scholastica, Feb. 10, 1850. She entered at Maria Rickenbach in 1866 and was invested by Mother M. Gertrude, the foundress, on Aug. 21, 1866. She was professed on Aug. 21, 1867.

In June, 1876, Sister and two companions, Sister M. Bernardine Wachter and Novice Anna Jann, were sent as the first recruits to the new foundation in America. Sister M. Bernardine later severed her connections with this community and joined the group who went to the Indian Missions in South Dakota, from which the community of Yankton emerged.

Unaccustomed to hard manual labor, Sister M. Scholastica found much opportunity for heroic generosity and self-sacrifice. Being appointed as community cook not too long after her arrival was a severe test for her. Of this she wrote to Mother Gertrude: 

"Humanly speaking, I have so much work, indoors and outdoors, that I can hardly breathe. But oh, the kitchen! It gives me so much to do, so many things to attend to and to plan, etc. It robs me of sleep and tires me out. The first week I thought I couldn't make it. It is somewhat better now, but I am supposed to find two free hours every day to feed the chickens and the pig, besides baking bread, making butter, and all kinds of other things that come along. I should be able to do somewhat more than I am able. I am not used to such work and for this reason I am so slow at it. This makes it hard for me at times. I am so tired at night, I can hardly stand up to pray - let alone kneel! Pray that I may have the grace to serve God cheerfully, for I don't want to be an unwilling servant, and that is what I often feel I am.” This complaint affords us an insight into the price paid by our pioneer Sisters in planting a new foundation on foreign soil.

Some months later Sister could write: "I am now happy and contented in the kitchen and joyfully offer myself to the Lord as a sacrifice. The struggle is over! There are now thirteen of us at table: Four Sisters, three novices and four candidates, and a boarder. So I have to cook for the twelve Apostles and the Blessed Mother. This should be to my credit before God and men!"

Naturally she suffered from homesickness at times, as we can glean from one of her letters to the Motherhouse: "My thoughts often return to that sacred spot where I received so much from the cradle of my religious life, through the novitiate, and those joys and sweet remembrances come back to me. It was the will of God that I should leave the place of my birth and all my loved ones to obtain a greater good." This letter contained a personal message for each one of her Sisters she had left behind - from the Superior to the youngest novice. Of the former she asked pardon for her failings and shortcomings, expressed gratitude for all they had done for her, and asked their prayers. She also commissioned one Sister to ask pardon in her name of all the Sisters, for any way in which she might have offended, grieved, or hurt the feelings of any one of them.

Sister's family had a background of generations in the business of printing and book-binding, and lent generous assistance to the Clyde printery. Incidentally the Matt family, who founded and for many years continued to publish the WANDERER in St.Paul, Minnesota, were relatives of hers. Sister herself spent many years in the Clyde book-bindery and acquired great skill in the work.

Sister also served as infirmarian of the community in the early years, and in that capacity took care of Sister M. Augustine Kuendig in her last illness and death.

In 1908 Sister M. Scholastica was appointed Superior of a group of Clyde Sisters who were invited to make a foundation in Frances, Washington, but the project failed.

Sister was a saintly, prayerful person, absorbed in God, yet very down-to-earth in her association with others. She died on January 31, 1925 at the age of seventy-five.