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. 166 D.O.B. 01.07.1917 First Profession 07.09.1949 Died: 01.09.2003 Aged: 86 years Born and educated in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Mairead O’Quigley came from a family of ten children; five boys and five girls. After school, Mairead stayed at home for two years helping to look after […]
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Sister Ancilla Domini was born Kathleen O’Reilly in Bruskey, Co. Cavan in 1914. She received her early education in Cavan and joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1951. Her first assignments were in catering and hospitality in MMM houses in Ireland, beginning with three years in Drogheda. She next spent […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 3 D.O.B. 15.11.1909 First Profession: 15.12.1937 Died: 11.11.2008 Aged: 98 years Brigid (Bridie to her family) O’Rourke grew up in the small townland of Glenague in the Glencar Valley of Co. Leitrim. According to an article she wrote in 2002 for the Leitrim Guardian, she […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 160 D.O.B.: 17.01.1920 First Profession: 07.09.1952 Died: 05.11.2010 Aged: 90 years Born in Killarney, Sister Fidelma was a bright student and on leaving school won a coveted place in London at the nursing school of Saints John and Elizabeth Hospital. In 1949, she met […]
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Sister Maureen (Paul) was born in Limerick in 1920 and spent her early years in Cork. When her family moved to Booterstown, Co. Dublin in 1934, her new home was only five minutes away from Rosemount, the property Mother Mary Martin had acquired through her brother Desmond, and which was […]
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January 1st 1929 – December 26th 2021 Sr. M. Catherine Therese was born in Emekuku, Owerri, Nigeria on January 1st, 1929. As a young girl, before joining MMM, she worked in St. Luke’s Hospital, Anua, as a ward orderly. In an interview she gave at the time of her Diamond […]
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Congregational Register No. 459 D.O.B. 23.01.1923 First Profession 26.04.1960 Died: 29.05.2005 Aged: 82 years Maria Pia Parlato was born in Gragnano, Naples, Italy. She had three brothers, one of whom was a doctor, and one sister. Maria Pia studied medicine at the University of Naples. She had some initial difficulties […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 46 D.O.B. 07.01.1915 First Profession: 08.09.1943 Died: 25.02.1971 Aged: 56 years Mary Peters of Mountrath, Laois, entered MMM on 2 January 1941. After her novitiate, she did her general nurse training in St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin and Part I of her midwifery training in […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No. 187 D.O.B. 03.03.1925 First Profession 07.03.1951 Died: 01.01.2001 Aged: 75 years Patricia Phelan was born in Tarbert, Co. Kerry, the eldest daughter of her parents, Nora and Robert. After attending Loreto Convent, Killarney, she began medical studies in University College Cork. As a fourth year […]
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Sister Andrew was born Helen Joyce Phillips in Conway, Michigan in 1929. The third of eight children and the only girl, she grew up in a Protestant family in rural northern Michigan. In his eulogy at her funeral Mass, Brent, her nephew, explained that in her early years there were […]
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