In this section of our website, you will find a short entry about the life of each of our Sisters who has been called by God to embark on her eternal life. No doubt you will find inspiration in reading how each one responded to her calling while on earth. We pray to them to help us on our journey.
If you knew one or more of these Sisters personally, or are connected through family ties, or simply like what you read, please contact us and tell us what you would like to add to that entry.
Sister Rita was born Margaret Hand in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan in 1935 and grew up near Dowth, Co. Meath. She completed her early education in Dublin and Drogheda and joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1953. After profession she trained as a nurse-midwife in Drogheda. Her first assignment was […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 89 D.O.B. 26.12.1908 First Profession 02.07.1945 Died: 24.11.2001 Aged: 92 years Christina was born in Palleskenry, County Limerick. On leaving school, she worked with her aunt in a draper’s shop and did dress making at home.
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Sister Dympna was born Eithne Hannelly in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon in 1922. Enna was a twin to her brother, Padraig, in a family of eight children. When she told her parents that she was going to join the Medical Missionaries of Mary, Mother Mary had to go to Castlerea to […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 148 D.O.B. 29.07.1922 First Profession: 16.03.1948 Died: 12.04.1992 Aged: 69 years Ellen Mary, better known as Nellie, came from Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. She entered in Drogheda on 12 September 1945.
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Nationality: British Congregational Register No. 293 D.O.B.: 08.12.1925 First Profession: 01.06.1954 Died: 12.02.2010 Aged: 84 years Teresa Margaret Headon was born in Gainford, Nr. Darlington, Co. Durham in the north of England. Teresa was educated at St. William’s Primary School and Immaculate Conception Secondary School, followed […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 593 D.O.B. 31.12.1921 First Profession: 27.04.1964 Died: 28.02.2000 Aged: 78 years Margaret, from Dundalk, entered on 9 April 1961. Her sister Anna had entered MMM in 1940 but left four years later of her own accord.
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1937 – September 2019 Sister Phyllis was born Mary Philomena Heaney in Dublin in 1937 and grew up in Kilberry Parish, Proudstown, Navan, County Meath. She was one of four children, two boys and two girls, and was very proud of her Meath origins. Educated by the Sisters of Mercy […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 264 D.O.B. 03.11.1913 First Profession: 06.04.1953 Died: 10.01.1980 Aged: 66 years Anne came from Athy, Co. Kildare and entered in Clonmel on 1 August 1950.
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Sister Nancy was born Anne Hilliard in Maio, Moynalty, Co. Meath in 1929, and was one of eleven children. She received her early education in Navan and joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1947. After qualifying as a physician in UCD, her first assignment was to Tanzania in 1956, […]
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Sr. Agnes Hinder was born in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1927. She had three sisters and one brother. The family had a beautiful home surrounded by mountains and woods and the children skied to school in the winter. Agnes trained and worked in domestic science for five […]
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