Sr. Wendy Beckett, the contemplative who became an unlikely television celebrity after hosting art programs on BBC and American public television throughout the 1990s, died Dec. 26 at a care facility near the Carmelite monastery in Quidenham, England, where she lived in a trailer hermitage. She was 88.
Beckett was born in South Africa, but soon moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, with her family so her father could study medicine. She entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, a teaching community, when she was 16.
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