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With love and gratitude, we bid farewell to our Sister Ildefonsa Grätz OP.

Our Saviour Christ Jesus has abolished death and has brought to light immortality and life through the Gospel, (2 Tim 1:10b)

With faith-filled confidence in God’s love and mercy our Sister Ildefonsa Grätz OP
has completed her earthly life.

Born:             05.10.1933 in Rütschenhausen (Bavaria/Germany)

Professed:   03.05.1957

Died:              14.01.2026 in Kist (Bavaria/Germany)

In deep gratitude for the witness of her life as an Oakford Dominican, we commend our Sister to the prayer of our Sisters and all those who feel connected to her in life and beyond death.

You can light a candle for Sr Ildefonsa.

Read here the obiduary of Sr Ildefonsa.

Dominican Sisters of Oakford

January 2026