Britain’s oldest nun, Sister Anne de Clerque-Wissocq de Sousberghe, has died, aged 111. Sister Anne, who entered the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls in 1929, helped create a new form of catechesis following the Second Vatican Council. She wrote a bestselling guide,Tell My People, and in 1966 helped found a national catechetical centre in London called Corpus Christi College. (The college was closed nine years later by Cardinal John Heenan.) “I wasn’t radical,” Sister Anne told the Catholic Herald in 2013. “I was revolutionary. I changed the way religion was taught.” She grew up in Belgium and entered the Holy Helpers at 25. The order, founded in 1856, was dedicated to helping the poor, and its members visited those in need, aiding them in whatever way they could. For a time Sister Anne worked as a qualified health visitor. On catechetics, she rebelled against the format of the Penny Catechism. Of her teaching methods, she explained in 2013: “I wouldn’t call myself a teacher, because I don’t like the idea of imposing anything on anyone... ‘‘Once I put a beautiful picture in front of the children. Then I made them come in, in silence, sit down, keep silence, and just look. I wanted them to understand the difference between seeing and looking. One is simply to note that the picture is there, the other is to try and understand how that picture touches you. Children are much better at the second.” Once, she said, a child came back several days later and said: “I’ve been looking at this apple, and I have seen so many things.”