Sister Antona Schedlo's Story & Gallery

Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Antona Scheldo, born in 1936, grew up in Halder, Wisconsin. Sister Antona spent a large portion of her life doing mission work in El Salvador. For 31 years, she served as a religious leader, community advocate, youth leader and FSPA coordinator as an international presence. She first went to serve in El Salvador in 1981 and lived there until the killings of Monsignor Oscar Romero and other Catholic priests and sisters that followed the country’s eruption into civil war. Sister Antona served a Hispanic community in Oregon for six years before — despite the ongoing war — returning to El Salvador. In 1988 she began working for Christians for Peace, assigned to serve inside the war zone in a camp of 3,000 refugees. In 2010 she settled in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and began working at Centro Latino, an organization that aims to support Spanish-speaking immigrants adjust to their new lives in the area. In her free time, she has taken on a number of creative hobbies that include painting watercolors and Ukrainian eggs. Sister Antona also creates cards for loved ones that are currently sold in the St. Rose Convent gift shop.

Immerse yourself in Sister Antona's ministerial story of art and a visual art gallery of her creations.