Waimate-born Oamaru nun Sr Mary Horn is one of 16 sisters of the order around the globe who were selected to produce artwork for the closing ceremony at the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome celebrating the order receiving papal approval.
She chose to not go to the event, citing her desire to reduce her carbon footprint as her key reason.
"We were talking the other day about carbon footprint. I’d like to see the exhibition, but there’s a book arriving this week and that will be of the whole 16. It will tell of the people who did [the work] and what they’re all about."
Sr Mary and Sr Sheila Flynn, of Sydney, are the Pacific’s representatives at the exhibition.Sr Sheila’s work is a representation of St Dominic. Sr Mary produced a work that represented Norwegian woman and latecomer to religion Sigrid Undset.
Undset, the mother of two children with disabilities, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
Outspoken against Adolf Hitler, she had to flee to the United States when the Nazis invaded Norway.
Sr Mary’s original work was photographed and then scanned on to a banner.
