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: 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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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 51 D.O.B. 04.10.1922 First Profession: 06.01.1945 Died: 21.01.2007 Aged: 84 years Mary Rose Pierse was born into a farming family in Ballinonig, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. She had four brothers, two of whom became priests, and one sister. Mary Rose was educated by the Presentation […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 359 D.O.B. 31.08.1919 First Profession: 03.12.1956 Died: 27.02.1997 Aged: 77 years Maeve, later to be known for some time as Sr. Marius, was from Cork and came to MMM as a qualified doctor on 27 September 1953.
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Sister Johanna was born in 1924 to a farming family in Blackwater, Co. Wexford. She had a twin brother who died at birth. She did her early education with the Loreto Sisters in Wexford and joined MMM in 1944. After profession Johanna trained as a nurse-midwife. In 1952 she was […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 107 D.O.B. 14.05.1920 First Profession: 08.09.1946 Died: 06.05.2008 Aged: 87 years Joan Maria Purcell was born in Dublin and considered herself a ‘true blue.’ She was educated by the Sisters of Charity in Gardiner Street and had the Dublin sense of humour, a great interest […]
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Sister Leonora was born Mary Nora Quealy in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford in 1936. She completed her early education there and trained as a nurse in Saint Patrick’s Hospital before joining the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1959. After profession she worked for two years as a staff nurse and ward […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregation Register No: 154 D.O.B. 04.06.1927 First Profession: 09.08.1948 Died: 18.09.1966 Aged: 39 years Rita Brigid Quigley, from Buncrana, Co. Donegal, entered MMM on 1 March 1946 in Drogheda. She was one of the many who cycled to and from Rosemount to various Dublin hospitals for general nurse […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No.150 D.O.B. 12.10.1889 First Profession: 09.09.1948 Died: 06.02.1978 Aged: 88 years Sr. Elizabeth (of the Sacred Heart) was 55 years old when she went to Drogheda on 1 October 1945 as an aspirant. However, she was to give 33 years of her life to MMM. She had […]
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