Violet Saradin always loved reading classic literature of all kinds, even math and science, and followed that joy by attending the Great Books program at St. John’s College. There her passion for learning and studying grew. However, she left for a period of time due to the changes imposed during the pandemic.

While away from school, she spent a few years working with children in various educational settings. She also briefly moved to an unfamiliar town, where she happened to join a local community choir because she did not know anyone and liked to sing. This choir happened to be the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers, whose impassioned Gospel singing inspired in her a passion for Christianity which she had never known before.

Nearly a year later, after having left the choir and gone back to school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, while walking home and listening to gospel music, she realized she fully believed all that was being sung and began attending Catholic Church the next day. The seeds of Catholicism were sown by reading Aristotle and Plato years before, and by her trip, the previous year, to see her extended family in Slovakia, where she was deeply moved by the service at her family’s 500 year old village church. She was baptised and confirmed at Easter services one year after that special realization. 

Miss Saradin holds a bachelor’s degree in Western Philosophy and History of Math and Science and looks forward to teaching the juniors and seniors in Calculus class this year, as well as meeting new families through her work in admissions.