Community mourns ‘Georgia’s Mother Teresa’

SISTER PHILOMENA FOGARTY led a life of nobility, love and care. To have it end in such a brutal way is shocking, a close friend said yesterday.

Community mourns ‘Georgia’s Mother Teresa’

As the Cork nun's suspected murderer was being questioned, law enforcement officers in at least three states, along with the FBI, were attempting to piece together the last terrible days of her life, after she was kidnapped by Adrian O'Neill Robinson as she returned with a colleague from Mass last Sunday.

"Sister Philomena dedicated her life to helping people. I knew her personally and I guarantee that up to the minute she took her last breath, she was praying for him," said Chief Dan Colberg, of the Hamilton, Georgia, Police Department yesterday.

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