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.
Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 719 D.O.B. 25.02.1924 First Profession 03.10.1967 Died: 30/01/2005 Aged: 80 years Ellen Kenna was born in Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny. She had one brother and three sisters and was educated at the Mercy Convent, Balleyragget and the Brigidine Convent in Abbeyleix. Some time after leaving school […]
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Sister Fergal Kenna, MMM 02th March, 1928—01st October, 2021 Sr. Fergal was born in Portarlington, County Laois, the daughter of Vera (née Whelan) and Michael Kenna. She was baptised Mary Josephine and was known as Mary. Her early education was with the Mercy Sisters in Monasterevan and from there she […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 37 D.O.B. 30.03.1911 First Profession: 02.07.1943 Died: 06.10.1975 Aged: 64 years It would seem that even though she might have wanted to ‘hide her light under a bushel’, there was no hiding from Mother Mary the many gifts Sarah Kenny of Ballymacward, Co. Galway, had […]
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Born in 1923 at Kilmainham Wood, Co. Meath, Sister Eileen was educated at Loreto College, Cavan, before joining the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1944. After religious profession, she qualified as a midwife at the Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, and in 1953 took up her first missionary assignment in Tanzania. […]
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Congregational Register No. 272 D.O.B. 28.12.1925 First Profession 08.09.1953 Died: 19.11.2003 Aged: 77 years Born in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, of a family of six children, Brigid trained as a registered mental nurse before joining MMM in 1950. During her second year novitiate training, she began upgrading to registered general nurse […]
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Sister Marita was born in Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland on the feast of the Holy Innocents, 28 December 1932. Her parents christened her Brigid Mary Innocent and she was known to her family as ‘Inny’. She was the second child in a large family and received her early education at […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 177 D.O.B.: 23.12.1919 First Profession: 07.09.1949 Died: 07.01.2010 Aged: 90 years Christina Kathleen Kerr was raised in Dundalk, Co. Louth, with two brothers and two sisters. As a child she spent a lot of time in Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital. At that time Cappagh […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 331 D.O.B. 01/02/1928 First Profession: 03.10.1959 Died: 09.11.2010 82 years Sister Marguerite was born in Kilteevan, six miles east of Roscommon town. She trained as a nurse at Western General Hospital in Hull and gained experience nursing in Canada. She returned to […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 146 D.O.B. 11.05.1894 First Profession: 16.03.1948 Died: 08.07.1967 Aged: 73 years Sr. Joannes entered in Drogheda on 8 September 1945 as Mrs. Nan King (née Bolger). A native of Co. Wexford, she had been living in Co. Down since her marriage to her late husband. […]
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The life of Sister Aloysia Lagween is part of the early Christian story of Tanzania, or Tanganyika, as it was then called. Born Emeliana, in Tlawi-Mbulu, Tanzania on 13 April 1933, her mother died in childbirth. The newborn infant was immediately cared for by a heroic woman who was responsible, […]
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