Dame Felicitas Corrigan OSB (6 March 1908 – 7 October 2003, Kathleen Corrigan) was a British Benedictine nun, author and humanitarian.
Biography
Corrigan was born in Liverpool in 1908 to a large family. She learned to play the organ at an early age and by age 15 was working as an organist at a local church. She then won an organ scholarship from the Archdiocese of Liverpool. While studying Gregorian Chant at Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, she met Dame Laurentia McLachan, who would later inspire Corrigan to become a nun. Corrigan read English at the University of Liverpool, delivering a dissertation on the poet Coventry Patmore.
