Baltimore native Sister Mary Zephyrine Ustaszewski, C.S.S.F., 93, was among five Felician Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Lodi, N.J., to recently celebrate her diamond jubilee of religious life.
Father Mark Bialek, associate pastor of St. Joseph, Fullerton, and cousin of Sister Mary Zephyrine, was the main celebrant of a special Mass for the sisters June 10.
Sister Zephyrine entered the Felician Sisters 75 years ago from Holy Rosary, Baltimore. She was a grammar teacher in several schools and spent the last years of her ministry in St. Ignatius Nursing Home in Philadelphia.