NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In 2022, the world discovered of New Orleans Marianite nun, Sister Suellen Tennyson after she was kidnapped in West Africa and held captive for 5 months.
On Wednesday, April 2, the Clarion Herald reported Tennyson died on the Sisters’ residence in Covington on the age of 86.
In April 2022, following her return to New Orleans, Tennyson described the evening she was kidnapped saying she was taken kind her mattress with out her sneakers and drugs , blindfolded, gagged and placed on the again of a bike.
She claimed that after the experience she was handed to a different group who she says “handled her moderately properly.”
In August 2022, she was freed and launched to the FBI, the U.S. Embassy and Air Power who introduced her dwelling.
“I all the time knew my neighborhood and my household and associates have been praying however now I’m discovering on the market have been 1000’s of individuals praying for me all over the world. I can’t even comprehend or discover a technique to specific the gratitude that’s in my coronary heart for all of the individuals who prayed for me,” mentioned Sister Suellen in 2022.
Tennyson served nearly 69 years in non secular life, in accordance tot he Clarion Herald.
Funeral preparations haven’t been introduced.
Sister Suellen in 2022
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