Sister Francis Joseph Roberts, the former Miss Margaret Roberts of Vienna, GA, made her solemn profession May 15 at the Monastery of the Visitation, 1820 Ponce de Leon Avenue, N.E.

Father Francis Azar, OFM, from Pensacola, Fla., officiated and delivered the sermon on Christian Vocations and the Contemplative Life.

Among the religious who attended were Father Michael Hogan and Father Oswald Ramm.

Dr. Mary Rose Costello, audiologist of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich., came to Atlanta for the service. Dr. Costello taught Sister Roberts, deaf from birth, to speak, and is her godmother.

The order of the Visitation of Holy Mary was founded in 1610 by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Francis de Chantal. St. Francis de Sales is referred to as the Patron Saint of the deaf and journalists.

Sister Roberts attended the Fine Arts College for the Deaf, Gallaudet, in Washington, DC, and Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee, Wis.