{"id":966,"date":"2026-08-19T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynxpublishers.com\/bookshelf\/?post_type=authors&#038;p=966"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:22:13","slug":"sister-mary-camilla-koester-p-c-c","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/lynxpublishers.com\/bookshelf\/authors\/sister-mary-camilla-koester-p-c-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Mary Camilla Koester P.C.C."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sister Mary Camilla Koester was a Colettine Poor Clare nun of the Monastery of Poor Clare Colettines in Cleveland, Ohio, and a devoted historian of her religious community. Through years of meticulous archival research, correspondence, and study of Church records, she documented the remarkable story of the Poor Clares&#8217; establishment and growth in the United States. Her writing reflects a deep commitment to preserving the spiritual heritage, historical legacy, and enduring Franciscan values of prayer, poverty, and service. <em>Into This Land<\/em> stands as her definitive work, offering readers a richly researched account of the courage, faith, and perseverance of the pioneering women who established the first permanent Poor Clare monastery in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-966","authors","type-authors","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynxpublishers.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynxpublishers.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynxpublishers.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/authors"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynxpublishers.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}