Born February 23, 1884, in St. Lawrence, Ky., Mary Rose was the daughter of Richard and Mary Ann Poole Aud. When she was nearly 20 years of age, Mary Rose entered the novitiate at Mount Saint Joseph where she spent a three‑month postulancy. On May 2, 1904, she received the Ursuline habit and the name Sister Mary Monica.
Sister Monica’s apostolate was housekeeping and she worked four years at Mount Saint Joseph performing domestic duties. Her first mission assignment was St. James in Louisville for a year and she then spent two years at St. Charles in Lebanon, Ky. Housekeeping duties took her to the convent at St. Patrick in Stithton, Ky., for two years. After that the town and area were taken over by the U.S. Government and became Camp Taylor and Fort Knox. Sister Monica then was assigned to Mount Saint Joseph for more domestic duties. Her last mission assignment was the convent at St. Ann in Howardstown, Ky., where she kept house for the teaching Sisters for three years.
Returning to Mount Saint Joseph for the summer in 1923, Sister Monica, always a frail person, took ill on July 10, and this developed into pneumonia. She was anointed by Father James Whelan, MSJ chaplain, four days later and within a few minutes, Sister Monica died. The date was July 14, 1923. Early in the morning on July 16, Father J.B. Tinnelly, S.S., celebrated the Requiem Mass and delivered his sermon on the virtues of religious life and how they were exemplified in Sister Monica’s life. She was then laid to rest in the convent cemetery.
Sister Monica Aud I and Sister Monica Aud II were aunt and niece. Sister Monica Aud II, the niece, entered after her aunt had died nearly three years earlier and was given the same name in religion.