Years before March Madness, Sister Jean shaped future leaders in LA

Millions of Americans were introduced to Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt for the first time as the TV-friendly team chaplain for the Loyola University of Chicago men’s basketball team during its improbable 2018 run to the NCAA Final Four.

But since her passing at age 106 on Oct. 9, those who knew her as their classroom teacher during her LA days are convinced that Jean’s life lessons will live on.

In a reflection published on AngelusNews.com, former student Cardinal Roger M. Mahony credited her with “the grace that encouraged me to enter the seminary.” The archbishop emeritus of Los Angeles was one of Schmidt’s first eighth-grade students in a classroom of nearly 80 at St. Charles Borromeo parish school in North Hollywood back in the 1940s.

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