Rosalind Gefre

Rosalind Gefre (born Mary Margaret Gefre; November 6, 1929 – June 15, 2026), also known as Sister Roz, was an American Catholic religious sister of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She was known for attempting to reduce stigma around massage therapy and for performing massages for fans at St. Paul Saints minor league baseball games.

Early life Mary Margaret Gefre was born in Strasburg, North Dakota, in 1929 as the eighth of twelve children. Her father died when she was six. While Gefre and her partners did not object to becoming licensed, they did object to being shut down under the city ordinance for preventing prostitution and challenged the closing in court. They received a temporary restraining order allowing them to reopen in March. She has said "We are a society that is God-hungry and skin-hungry. In the context of massage, to some extent you can do both." She operated massage clinics in Minneapolis, Edina, Saint Paul, and White Bear Lake, and ran massage schools in West Saint Paul and Fargo, North Dakota.

In 1993, Gefre began to offer massages at the baseball games of the newly-formed minor league St. Paul Saints team. While for the first several years business was slow because of the social stigma around massages, lines eventually began to lengthen and Gefre became a popular source for massages, prayers, and hugs. Despite attending Saints games for over two decades, Gefre knew very little about the game of baseball. She is briefly featured in the Netflix documentary The Saint of Second Chances about Saints president Mike Veeck.