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 Margaret slipped away to her heavenly home on 9 June 2011. She had celebrated her 90th birthday on 8 March with her large extended family – a most joyous occasion. Among the fourteen priests who concelebrated her funeral Mass were her two brothers, Fr. Joe of St. Patrick’s Missionary […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. D.O.B. 31.05.1932 First Profession: 08.09.1955 Died: 30.04.2007 Aged: 74 years Mary (Mae) O’Conor was born in Dublin, where her father worked as a foreman in a large factory. She was the eldest child and had four brothers and two sisters. She was educated at the […]
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Sister Maura was born Mary Brigid O’Donohue in Lickeen, Kilfenora, County Clare in 1933. She attended school at Kilshanny Primary School and Saint Mary’s College in Mountmellick. She entered the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1950. Two of her school friends, Maura Ramsbottom and Nano Rhatigan (Sister Consolata) also joined. […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 408 D.O.B. 31.05.1923 First Profession: 26.04.1958 Died: 02.06.1987 Aged: 64 years Sr. Finbarr, baptised Maureen Theresa, from Bandon, Co. Cork, entered MMM in September 1955. Before entering, she was known to be a great ‘horsey’ woman; she loved horses and riding.
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 619 D.O.B.: 13.12.1939 First Profession: 03.10.1964 Died: 21.12.1998 Aged: 59 years Eileen, known for a while as Sr. Maria Catalina, was from Co. Kerry, though at the time of entering MMM in February 1962 her address was in Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
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Congregational Register No. 574 D.O.B. 11.11.1910 First Profession 03.10.1963 Died: 06.04.2005 Aged: 94.years Sheelah Mary O’Hagan was born in Newry, Co. Down. She was the third child and the second daughter in a family of three brothers and three sisters. When Sheelah was fourteen years old her mother, Adelaide, died. […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 84 D.O.B. 08.07.1913 First Profession 02.07.1945 Died: 19.06.2001 Aged: 87 years Anne O’Hanlon was born in Dublin and had five brothers and five sisters. After finishing school she worked in an office for twelve years before entering MMM in 1942, aged 29.
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Sr. M. Davnet, baptised Sara Gertrude and known as Sally, was born in Derry in December 1937, but she was definitely a Donegal person at heart as her early childhood was in Culdaff on the Inishowen peninsula and she attended the local primary school in Gleneely. While attending Primary School […]
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Sister Mairead was born in Belfast in 1920. She trained in massage and medical gymnastics in England. She then trained as a physiotherapist in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast before joining the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1947. She took the name Cor Marie, but returned to her own […]
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Sr. Patricia O’Kane, known in the family as Phyllis, was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland and attended her local Catholic primary school. She was employed locally in a factory before she joined MMM in 1956, aged 21. She came from a family of six, four brothers, Paul, Gabriel, Maurice […]
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