The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 2, 2009, at Sacred Heart Chapel, Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, for Sister Marcus Salzer, who died on April 25, 2009, at St. Cloud Hospital. Burial will be in the monastery cemetery. Friends may call at Saint Scholastica Convent, St. Cloud, on Friday, May 1, from 1−6 p.m. or for a Prayer Vigil at 7 p.m. at Saint Benedict’s Monastery. Visitation continues at 9 a.m. until the time of the funeral on Saturday, May 2, at 10:30 a.m.

Margaret, the fifth child of Joseph and Anna (Fleischhacker) Salzer, was born August 7, 1912, in Cold Spring, Minn. She entered Saint Benedict’s Monastery as S. Marcus in August 1931, made her first monastic profession on July 11, 1933, and perpetual profession on July 11, 1935. After attending St. Boniface Grade School in Cold Spring, she stayed at home to help care for the family, where she learned culinary and homemaking arts from her mother.

S. Marcus served as a homemaker, cook, gardener, laundress and receptionist. She worked at the St. Cloud Hospital; Visitation Convent at Tacoma, Wash.; Watkins; Mandan, N.D.; Sauk Rapids; College of Saint Benedict food service; St. John Cantius and St. Raphael’s Convent in St. Cloud; Hutchinson; Perham; Buckman; Pearl Lake; Sauk Centre; Millerville; and Saint Benedict’s Monastery. Retiring at Saint Scholastica Convent in 1995, she continued her skills in cross-stitch, needlepoint and embroidery; many of her projects were contributed to the YMCA and RSVP.

S. Marcus is survived by her Benedictine community and two brothers—Fred, St. Joseph, and Robert, Cold Spring and two sisters-in-law, Martha and Alma. She was preceded in death by eight brothers: Albert, Alfred, Aloysius, Anthony, George, Leander, Leo, Marcus and three sisters: Clarita (Clara), OSB, Marie Duerr and Catherine Stein. Please direct memorials to the Vocation Fund at Saint Benedict’s Monastery.