Lilliana Owens

Lilliana M. Owens (May 13, 1898 - September 27, 1992) was an American historian, writer, educator and Catholic nun. She was known for her historical writing and her Catholic comic books.

Biography Owens was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 13, 1898. She attended St. Francis High School in St. Paul, Kansas. She went on to become a Sister of Loretto on December 8, 1917. She worked at the Immaculate Conception High School in East Las Vegas, New Mexico in the 1940s. She also worked as an associate editor for Revista Católica.

Owens died at the Loretto Mother House Infirmary in Nerinx, Kentucky on September 27, 1992. Her comic, Nerinckx and the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross, published by Topix comics in 1947, was successful enough to lead to the production of more comics about the Sisters of Loretto.

In the early 1950s, Owens worked on a collection of volumes about Catholic scholars in the Southwest United States called "Jesuit Studies--Southwest." The volume on Bishop Anthony J. Schuler was considered by New Mexico Historical Review to be well researched. The book was also lauded by Cardinal Eugène Tisserant.

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