Sister Christine or Christina Greenstidel was a school teacher, and close friend and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. On 24 February 1894, Christine attended a lecture of Vivekananda in Detroit, United States which inspired her. She started communicating with Vivekananda through letters. Christine went to India in 1902 and began working as a school teacher and a social worker.
Sister Christine
Swami Vivekananda in New York in 1895. That year, he initiated Sister Christine into Brahmacharya at Thousand Island Park.
Sister Christine (left) with Sister Nivedita (right) in India
Sister Nivedita, Sister Christine, Charlotte Sevier, and Lady Abala Bose in Mayavati
Thousand Island Park, New York
Thousand Island Park, also known as TI Park, is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Orleans, Jefferson County, New York, United States, in the Thousand Islands region on the St. Lawrence River. Founded in 1875 as a holiday camp, the incorporated community remains a seasonal summer community; despite 323 housing units, there was only a population of 31 permanent residents as of the 2010 census.
Victorian homes typical of the Thousand Island Park community on the southwest tip of Wellesley Island
An example of a 19th-century Carpenter Gothic Revival style cottage on Thousand Island Park.
The Pavilion located on the St. Lawrence River, pictured in 2008
