Born on August 4, 1839 in Luxemburg, Luxemburg, Therese pronounced her fist vows on September 30, 1863 and died at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Chretienne in Metz, France on July 26, 1880.

Sistr Odilia was raised in a very Christian family and attended a boarding school staffed by the Sisters of St. Chretienne, possibly in Rustroff, France, located close to the Luxemburg border. It was while she attended this school that the seeds of a religious vocation were planted in her heart. When her family later moved to the United States, she went with them. Faithful to her vocation to religious life, Sister Odilia returned to France alone to enter the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Chretienne in Metz, France. It is recorded that she arrived with great joy in her heart.

After her profession, she was sent to teach at a St. Chretienne school in Rethel, France which was located in the Ardennes region in the north. She was a very successful teacher, but because of her frail health, she had to give up this apostolic activity. She was sent to the Motherhouse in Metz, France where she remained until her death on the feast of St. Anne at the age of 40.

~ From archives of Sisters of St. Chretienne (Rethel, France).