Sister Emmanuel Cintron entered eternal life on August 17, 2010, sixty-six years to the date after she made her final profession as a Benedictine Sister of St. Martin Monastery. The youngest of three children, Sr. Emmanuel (Aurea Cintron) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When she was three years old, her mother passed away and her father, a politician, placed his three young children in government schools. Her father died a few years later and Aurea lived at the government school with her older brother and sister for the next ten years. After graduation, she worked for the Notre Dame Sisters who were in charge of the parish school. The principal of the school had grown up in Chicago with Mother Lucia, the Superior of the Benedictine Convent located at that time in Sturgis. It was through this childhood friendship that God called Aurea to be a Benedictine Sister of St. Martin Monastery in 1939. She asked, Why me? and responded to her own question. Gods love works miracles in our lives. When He calls, do listen. When she arrived in Sturgis, she didnt know what to expect. Although she didnt know any English, she soon acclimated to the religious life and living in America. After she completed high school, she worked as a nurses aide in Hot Springs. Later, she entered Nurses Training and graduated cum laude from St. Johns School of Nursing in Rapid City. She spent a number of years working in St. Josephs Hospital in Deadwood. In 1967, she answered the Holy Fathers call for sisters in South America and went to La Pila, Columbia to operate a dispensary where she worked primarily with the poor for thirteen years. In 1981, she returned to Rapid City, but was soon sent to Jacksonville, Texas to work for sixteen years with the Mexican Immigrant Community in the Parish of Our Lady of Sorrows. Sister Emmanuel is survived by a sister, nieces, a nephew, and by the Benedictine Community of St. Martin. Bishop Blase Cupich will celebrate the Mass of Christian Burial in the Monastery Chapel on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 (her birthday) at 11:00 oclock. Interment will follow in the Monastery cemetery.