Bernadette Roberts (1931–2017) was a Carmelite nun and contemplative in the Catholic tradition. == Biography == Bernadette Roberts was born in 1931 in California to devout Catholic parents. She entered the Monastery of Discalced Carmelites in Alhambra, California when she was seventeen in January 1949. After eight and a half years of monastic life, Roberts left the cloister and entered the University of Utah where she was a pre-medical student for three years. After studies in Utah she return…