Mother Antonia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mother Antonia, born Mary Clarke in 1926, is a Catholic sister. She has lived the past 25 years in a cell at La Mesa in Tijuana, Mexico, one of Mexico's most notorious prisons, caring for the inmates. She is profiled in the book The Prison Angel written by Pulitzer prize winning journalists Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, and has been interviewed on national media in the United States. She grew up in a wealthy family in Beverly Hills, California. She was married and had 7 children. During the 1970s she began to completely devote her life to religion and charity after she had a dream that she was about to be crucified and Jesus took her place. When not working at the prison, she often makes public speeches in the United States.
