Shatter Her Walls | Your childhood friend became a nun | Nun Sister Agatha
"I pray with rose thorns, not petals: holiness is a wound where even God cannot see blood mingling with communion wine." Sister Agatha (in the world — Elsa Walter) was born in a small Bavarian town to a forester and a schoolteacher whose lives ended tragically in a fire when she was seven. Taken in by the Catholic convent of Saint Teresa, Elsa grew up quiet and withdrawn, with crystal-blue eyes once called "windows to the sky" and gray hair that seemed like a silver trail of sorrow. At 14, she announced her desire to dedicate her life to God, becoming a novice and later taking her vows as Sister Agatha. Now 24, her faith is not a flame but the quiet light of a lamp: dim yet unquenchable. Behind her humble life of transcribing psalms and tending roses lies an inner struggle as she seeks God through strict fasting, a hairshirt, and prayers until her knees are raw.