The Staten Island nun who jumped from a burning convent got a bedside visit Sunday from her boss, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who also led Mass at a gym packed with well-wishers for her.
“Oh, my Lord, her spirits are so good,” Dolan said outside Staten Island University Hospital after a private half-hour visit with Sister Regina Gegic in intensive care. “She’s in pain, but she’s so hopeful and so appreciative of all the prayers and everything.”
Gegic, 45, broke her back Saturday leaping from a second-floor dorm window at St. Joseph Hill Academy Catholic school, where she was trapped by a predawn fire that sources say looks like arson.
“She said that her guardian angel was taking care of her,” Dolan recounted.
Earlier, Dolan spoke at Sunday services at St. Joseph’s gym.
“I never thought today’s services would be canceled,” he said after. “These are gritty, strong, trusting women . . . As sad and ominous and worrisome as [the incident] is, I know it wouldn’t stop this.”
Two predawn fires burned a campus chapel and a former convent where Gegic and another nun were bunking.