Sunlight bathed Loyola University’s Madonna Della Strada Chapel on Thursday as hundreds came together to honor and mourn Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt.

Students, friends and relatives remembered Sister Jean as “the heart of Loyola,” who dedicated her life to teaching and serving God.

“Beyond the Ramblers, Jean has been with and for the whole extended Loyola University community,” Sister Mary Ann Zollmann told mourners. “As a woman of wisdom, prayer and compassion, she has been an adviser and confidant. The heartbeat of God’s friendship and the heart of Loyola, and it is for this that she wants to be remembered.”

Sister Jean, a beloved member of the university, died Oct. 9. She was 106.

The funeral Mass was held at the chapel, on the lakefront of Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus, 6453 N. Kenmor

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