# Mother Bridget — Cimarron character guide

> Mother Bridget in Cimarron by Edna Ferber.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mother

**First appearance:** 0012-ix

## Snapshot

A nun who runs a mission school for Osage children, quietly shaping lives the white settlers would rather forget.

## Who they are

Mother Bridget keeps a mission school for Osage children on the edge of the Oklahoma country, teaching those the new towns would just as soon overlook. Her work puts her at the moral center of the land question Yancey Cravat thunders about in print, and she sees up close what broken treaties and broken spirits leave behind. She matters because she tends the people the boom is built over, and because the children she shelters carry that history forward.

## Relationships

### [Sabra Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/sabra_cravat)

_friendship_

A Catholic nun and friend who supports Sabra in her community work and personal struggles.

### [Sabra Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/sabra_cravat)

_friendship_

A Catholic nun and friend who supports Sabra in her community work and personal struggles.

### [Sabra Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/sabra_cravat)

_friendship_

A Catholic nun and friend who supports Sabra in her community work and personal struggles.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/chapters/iii)

Recounts her experiences with Native American students; gives Sabra a handwoven blanket as a farewell gift.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/chapters/xii)

Died two weeks before Sabra's visit; Sabra regrets not being able to share her Osage experiences with her.

### [Chapter XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/chapters/xxiv)

Referenced as the giver of the handwoven coverlet that Sabra still keeps.

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