An Irish nun made an emotional return to a US convent this week just
three months after she received a savage beating after coming to the aid
of a man who asked her for money.
Speaking this week Sr Nora Brick who hails from Tralee in County
Kerry said, “They didn't forget me” when she returned to the Stillpoint
House of Prayer she founded in Bradenton Florida to help the area's
poor.
The local media in Bradenton reported that there was, “singing,
hugging and crying when the popular Franciscan nun returned home from
hospital.”
However, Sr Brick who earned the name the “Irish Mother
Teresa” because of her years of work on behalf of the underprivileged in
Manatee County, is only back in Florida for a few days.
Speaking at the celebration, which was attended by over 200 people,
she said, “I am now fully restored thanks to yours prayers. My heart is
broken to be leaving my migrant families. It is hard to separate from
them. But God has something in store for me.”
The 81-years-old nun
confirmed that next week she will retire to her order's convent in
Tenafly, New Jersey, where she has been receiving treatment since her
attack.
Meanwhile police in New Jersey have confirmed that her suspected attacker, a 51-year-old man is still at large.