Katarina served as a dedicated youth minister, working at six churches in Galveston, Texas, before she was tragically killed in 2019. Her acts of compassion that included giving the shoes off her feet to a homeless woman, moved many throughout her life.
She spoke gently, lived humbly, gave freely, and greeted the world with joy long before attending the University of Notre Dame, which continued until she was called to heaven.
Her final act of kindness, was placing a letter of encouragement under the door of every 'Echo' Program student at the University of Notre Dame Theology Program reunion while they were sleeping -- the same two-year Theology graduate Master's program of which she was an alum -- on the morning of her accident.