MARION — Vivian Webster, who took the name Sister Mary Gertrude and was clothed as a novice of the Benedictine community at St. Scholastica Priory in Petersham, Mass., in 2017, made her profession of simple vows on Oct. 20, 2019.
She homeschooled until she attended Mainland Regional High School in Linwood, N.J. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Richard Stockton College and worked several years for the Atlantic County, N.J., Library system.
She is the daughter of Arthur and Evelyn Webster, parishioners at Our Lady of the Angels Church in Marion.
— Art and Evelyn Webster