South Africa: Murdered Nun Devoted 60 Years of Her Life to Service

Missionary nun Gertrud Tiefenbacher, 87, died in the same room in which she had spent over 60 years of her life after she was raped and strangled by two men in an Ixopo convent.

The Austrian-born nun, who had lost her sight in one eye and was slowly succumbing to blindness, had devoted her life to service.

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