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Mother Rosario (3)
Religious Life
At the age of 27, she entered the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Sta. Catalina de Siena. After six months of postulancy, she received the religious habit and was given the name Sister Rosario Arroyo de la Visitacion. She made her first profession on January 3, 1914.
Sister Rosario was assigned to work and teach in Colegio dela Nuestra Señora del Sto. Rosario, Lingayen, Pangasinan, in this place she became sickly. Knowing about her poor health, her parents visited her. She told him that the cause of her sickness was the direct blowing of the wind through the broken windows of the convent and school. Don Ignacio had the building fixed immediately. Sister Rosario went home to rest. After her recovery, she was sent to a convent school in Manila. She took charge of the boarders and at the same time was teaching. She did her assignment with enthusiasm.
Usually, her brother, a senator having his office in Manila, would visit her before going home to Iloilo and would bring her letters to their parents. One day, he went home without informing Sister Rosario. On the day her mother died, she accepted the death of her mother with equanimity. She believed her mother died a happy death because she was a very pious woman.
Don Ignacio asked her to spend her vacation in Iloilo. To console her father for the death of her mother, she acceded. Her father was happy to have her around. He even pleaded to her to stay with him but she was determined to return to the convent and continue her religious life. The father advised her to bring for the convent as much money as she wished but she refused. She was detached from material goods and focused her attention to what was spiritual.