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.
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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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 423 D.O.B. 01.10.1924 First Profession 20.10.1958 Died: 05.07.2005 Aged: 80 years Bernadette Larney came from Kileen in Co. Louth. She was from a large family of six boys and three girls. After completing her secondary schooling she helped her mother at home for some years […]
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1923 – 17th November 2014 Sister Helen (Letitia) Lavin was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England in 1923, one of five children. She received her early education in Barnsley and moved to Ireland when she was nine. Because she had an aunt in the Holy Faith Convent in Haddington Road, Dublin, […]
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Sister Sheila Lenehan was born in Sandyford, County Dublin in 1943. She was the sixth in a family of six girls and two boys. She received her education in Sandyford and at Loreto College in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin. After joining MMM in 1961, she trained as a nurse in […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 320 D.O.B.: 07.10.1923 First Profession 09.09.1960 Died: 19.06.2010 Aged: 86 years. Rosaleen Mary Levins came from of a large, religious, north Dublin family. Two of her brothers were later ordained. Rosaleen Mary grew up to be a strong, determined, independent-minded girl. As […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 2 D.O.B. 13.01.1907 First and Final Profession 06.01.1947 Died: 10.11.01 Aged: 94 years Nora Leydon was born in Kilmactrenny in Co. Sligo. Nora was the third child in the family. Her mother died some months after her birth and this circumstance made her very special […]
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Sister Denise was born Philomena Lynch in Baillieston, Glasgow, Scotland in 1932. She attended West of Scotland Commercial College, obtained an advanced certificate in elocution in London, and worked as a secretary in a solicitor’s office before joining the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1951. Her sister Patricia is also […]
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Sister Jeane Lynch MMM, died peacefully at Sancta Maria Nursing Care Facility in Cambridge, MA on December 11, 2022. Given the name Jeane Cecile Lynch, she was the third of four children born to Mary Madeline (Fitzpatrick) Lynch and John Edward Lynch on April 24, 1936. Jeane’s early years […]
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6 March 1932 – 16 December 2024 Sr. Lucia, baptised Margaret Mary and known to the family as Rita, was born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, in March 1932. She was educated locally at the Convent of Mercy schools and then went to Dublin to Jervis Street Hospital, to train as […]
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Sister Maura was born in Youghal, County Cork in 1938, the fourth of nine children. She joined MMM in 1956. After qualifying in medicine in University College Dublin she was assigned to Angola in 1967. In preparation, she first went to Lisbon, Portugal to learn the language and to study […]
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