(TIME) Thirteen religious sisters at a Michigan convent have died from the coronavirus, with twelve sisters passing in the span of a month.
The women, aged 69 to 99, were all members of a Felician Sisters convent in Livonia, Mi.
On Good Friday, the virus took the life of Sister Mary Luiza Wawrzyniak, 99. By the end of the month, eleven other sisters had passed; seventeen more were infected but recovered, according to Sr. Noel Marie Gabriel, the director of clinical health services for Our Lady of Hope Province. A thirteenth sister, despite an initial recovery, passed away in June.