Speaking this week Sr Nora Brick who hails from Tralee in County Kerry said, “They didn't forget me” when she returned to the Stillpoint House of Prayer she founded in Bradenton Florida to help the area's poor.
The local media in Bradenton reported that there was, “singing, hugging and crying when the popular Franciscan nun returned home from hospital.”
However, Sr Brick who earned the name the “Irish Mother Teresa” because of her years of work on behalf of the underprivileged in Manatee County, is only back in Florida for a few days.
Speaking at the celebration, which was attended by over 200 people, she said, “I am now fully restored thanks to yours prayers. My heart is broken to be leaving my migrant families. It is hard to separate from them. But God has something in store for me.”
The 81-years-old nun confirmed that next week she will retire to her order's convent in Tenafly, New Jersey, where she has been receiving treatment since her attack.
Meanwhile police in New Jersey have confirmed that her suspected attacker, a 51-year-old man is still at large.
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