Episode 384: From Divorced Mother to Prison Nun: The Incredible Story of Mother Antonia Brenner with Sr. Anne Marie Maxfield

Hey Everybody! It's Fr. Edward · Aug 17, 2026 · 43m

Mother Antonia Brenner’s vocation story is anything but ordinary.

She wasn’t someone who dreamed of becoming a religious sister from childhood. She was married. She was a mother. She experienced divorce. She raised a family and spent years serving others—at one point helping send medical equipment to people in need around the world.

And then God led her somewhere almost unimaginable: into a Mexican prison.

Mother Antonia eventually gave away much of what she owned, moved into a cell at La Mesa Prison in Tijuana, and devoted her life to serving the men incarcerated there. Known throughout the…