Sister of St. Francis of the Holy Eucharist Runs Down Burglary Suspect

...........He walked right up to us,” Sister Connie said. “I asked him what he was doing, and he told us he was cutting through to a friend’s house. I asked him to tell me the name of his friend, and he couldn’t do it. I told him that he shouldn’t be on our property and we were going to call the police.

“He panicked and ran,” Sister Connie said.
Sister Catarina, 49, a native of the Brazilian jungle where the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Eucharist long had a mission, gave chase, wearing a pair of flip-flop sandals on her feet, and her modified brown habit, while Sister Connie called police.

She caught up with him after a few hundred yards near the convent.
“He wasn’t a cross country runner. He was completely out of breath,” Sister Connie said.
Sister Catarina said the Franciscan life of manual labor keeps her in shape.

“Reporters asked me what I do to exercise. I told them I work. That is my exercise,” she said.
Sister Catarina told the young man to wait, but just before police began to arrive, he ran again into a nearby woods.

Soon, the property was full of police, search dogs and helicopters hovering overhead.
Using tracking skills she learned as a child, Sister Catarina led an officer in a patrol car to the area where the young man entered the woods. As they continued their search, Sister Catarina saw a baby deer caught in a barbed wire fence at the property’s border.

She insisted that the officer stop. The officer told her that getting out of the car would be dangerous with all the search dogs, unfamiliar with the sister, in the area. She insisted.
Sister Catarina and the officer abandoned their search for the young man, and cut the fence to free the tiny deer.

“He was only seven or eight months old, but he was strong,” Sister Catarina said. “There was a line of deer off in the distance. When he was free, he made a little noise to call his momma, and ran to those deer.

“The policeman said to me, ‘We did some holy work today,’” Sister Catarina said.
The young man was captured about a mile from the sister’s property, hiding behind a barn. He was taken back to the convent, where Sister Connie and Sister Catarina identified him as the young man they confronted earlier.

“He was shaking, he was so afraid,” Sister Connie said. “Never once were we afraid of him.”...................

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