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CONSECRATED VIRGIN Mary Rose Rynda, right, receives a blessing from Archbishop Bernard Hebda during a Mass June 16 at Immaculate Conception in Lonsdale, where she made vows to become a consecrated virgin. She joins four others who made similar vows at a Mass March 25 at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, which brings the total number of consecrated virgins in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to 15. Rynda is a parish secretary at Immaculate Conception. “This vocation is what Jesus put on my heart in 2017,” said Rynda, who sold her salon business in 2019 to work for Immaculate Conception parish and Holy Cross Catholic School in nearby Webster, “and it is a true gift.”