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Article: Taking up a collection
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
- Article date:
- May 30, 2003
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Sister DePaul Stava (right) provides a glimpse of her vast stamp collection to Villa St. Benedict residents (from left) Therese Kulikowski, Colette Powers and Mary Slezak. Stava has been collecting stamps since her childhood at St. Joseph's Bohemian Orphanage, which is now Benet Academy.
Stamps of the Virgin Mary fill four albums in Sister DePaul Stava's stamp collection. The Benedictine nun has more than 5,000 stamps from more than 130 countries honoring Mary.
There is only one challenge that Sister DePaul Stava faces when adding to her large stamp collection.
"You just don't know where to stop," she said.
Stava, a Benedictine nun at Sacred Heart Monastery in Lisle for more than half a ...