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 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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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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