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: 17 D.O.B. 25.09.1918 First Profession: 08.09.1941 Died: 19.04.2008 Aged: 89 years Josephine Doyle was born in Piercestown, Co. Wexford. She was one of ten children, with four brothers and five sisters. From her early letters it seems that she became acquainted with Mother Mary in […]
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Sister Margaret was born in Clonegal, Co. Carlow in 1921. She received her education in the national school in Clonegal and joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1950. She made her first profession of vows in 1953 and was assigned to the nursing home run by the MMM in […]
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Nationality: Irish Congregational Register No: 520 D.O.B. 25.01.1931 First Profession: 03.04.1954 Died: 19.08.1977 Aged: 46 years Sr. Damien, baptized Margaret Mary, was a native of Durrus, Co.Cork, and emigrated to the USA. She entered MMM in Boston, MA, on 8 September 1951, and was in the first group of novices […]
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Sister Gabriel was born and grew up in Drumgriston, Co. Monaghan. She went to school in Billeady and later at the Mercy Convent, Castleblaney. She entered MMM in March l942, when the Congregation was only five years old. Those were also the war years and life was not easy. Following […]
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Nationality: IrishCongregational Register No: 88D.O.B. 12.05.1921First Profession: 08.09.1945Died: 19.09.1949 Aged: 26 years Mary Ellen (May) Duignan came from Arva, Co. Cavan and entered MMM on 7 December 1942. Following profession, she trained as a midwife. During her time at the maternity hospital, she became Matron Phelan’s “right hand”, and Matron […]
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Sr. Renee, baptised Bridget Mary, was born in 1943 in Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim. She studied at local schools and at the age of seventeen was invited by relatives to the USA. There, for some years she worked as a bank teller in a bank in New York, but […]
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Sister Mary Dunne (1941-2011) Mary was the youngest child and only daughter of Kathleen and Patrick Dunne. She grew up in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, and trained as a nurse in Kent, and then studied midwifery in Scotland. Having worked as a staff nurse for some time, she volunteered for a […]
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Nationality: IrishCongregational Register No: 120D.O.B. 12.05.1924First Profession: 06.01.1947Died: 30.04.2008 Aged: 83 years Catherine Angela Durnin came from a large farming family in Lawlesstown, Dunleer, Co. Meath. She had five brothers and three sisters. The young Catherine Angela contributed to the household income with her dressmaking skills after she left St. […]
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Sister Jean was born Elaine Eason in Buffalo, New York, USA in 1941. She attended school in Gardenville and Buffalo, New York, graduating from Mount Mercy Academy High School. Throughout her time in MMM she remained in contact with several Sisters of Mercy who taught her. She met the Medical […]
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Sr. Agnes Maria, born in Anua, Uyo, Nigeria, could be described as a pioneer. She qualified as a teacher, but having been inspired by Mother Mary Martin, whom she had met in Nigeria, she came to Ireland in 1953 with Veronica Akpan, who became the first MMM from Africa.
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