Marie Pauline Brenner

Marie Pauline Brenner
Brenner in 1926
Personal life
Born1906 (1906)
Died1978 (aged 7172)
Resting placeMount Olivet Cemetery
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Known forCatholic social studies pioneer
Religious life
ReligionCatholicism
OrderSchool Sisters of St. Francis
Monastic nameSister M. Rebecca

M. Rebecca Brenner, OSF (born Marie Pauline Brenner; 15 December 1906 – 6 August 1978), was an American religious educator who helped establish sociology as a discipline in Catholic secondary education. Based in Chicago, she was a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis.