Nationality: British
Congregational Register No: 576
D.O.B. 21.08.1942
First Profession: 03.05.1963
Died: 29.03.1996 Aged: 54 years
From Jersey in the Channel Islands, Marie entered MMM on 3 October 1960.
She qualified as a laboratory technician and worked in the laboratory in the hospital in Drogheda until 1971, when she was assigned to Leon, Spain.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No. 153
D.O.B. 22.07.1924
First Profession: 09.09.1948
Died: 28.05.2004 Aged: 79 years
Anne (Nance) Moran was born and raised in Terenure, Dublin. She was the sixth child in a family of five brothers and three sisters. Anne was only five years old when her mother died shortly after her younger sister, Berna, was born. Their father died only two years after their mother, and the family was raised by the eldest girl, Molly, who became mother to all, never marrying. Anne was educated at the Presentation College, Terenure, and Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, later going on to Skerry’s Commercial College, where she learned her secretarial skills. Anne entered MMM in December 1945, taking the name Sr. Mary Reparatrice.
Sister Ita was born in Ballinasloe, Galway in 1930. The youngest of four children, three girls and a boy, she obtained her early education at the Mercy Convent, Ballinasloe. She trained in typing, shorthand and book-keeping and worked in the office of Dubarry Shoes in Ballinasloe.
She worked as a secretary before joining the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1949. After a devastating fire in Drogheda in 1952, novices were housed in a hotel in Termonfeckin, a nearby town. Ita’s group was the first to be professed after the fire.
Sister Therese Kilkenny wrote: ‘Ita with her group made their First Profession in Termonfeckin Parish Church because it was very soon after the fire and we were all in temporary accommodation in what is now An Grianan.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 777
D.O.B. 15.11.1917
First Profession: 27.04.1970
Died: 06.11.1979 Aged: 61 years
Mary Josephine Meenan, née McDonagh, from Belfast, entered on 8 September 1967.
She was a widow with no family. She had not married until she was nearly forty and her husband, John, had died after only nine years of marriage.
Sr. Leonie was born Patricia McSweeney in County Waterford in 1932. She grew up in Dublin, together with her brother Bill, and attended her early education with the Holy Faith Sisters, whom she loved. She worked as a secretary in a factory for two years before joining MMM in 1951. She felt a call to religious life but was more attracted to nursing than to teaching. When she was interviewed by Mother Mary, Mother accepted her immediately and told her that she would like her to study to be a doctor.
Nationality: Scottish
Congregational Register No: 437
D.O.B. 14.04.1914
First Profession: 06.05.1959
Died: 01.02.1981 Aged: 66 years
Catherine Spellacy McMeekin, known to us as Sr. Michaeli, entered in Clonmel on 7 October 1956. She hailed from Airdrie in Scotland and was a true Scotswoman to the end!
St. Benedict’s Rule reads:
Congregational Register No. 491
D.O.B. 22.06.1935
First Profession 03.10.61
Died: 08.08.2005
Aged: 70 years
Julia Ann McLoughlin was born in Dublin, the eldest of six children. She was educated by the Presentation Sisters and after finishing secondary school did a commercial Course at Rathmines Technical School. She continued on to Gregg Commercial School, Dublin, and worked as a secretary before entering MMM in 1959.
Following formation, Sr. Julie’s secretarial skills were put to good use in the nunciature in Dublin and later at Drogheda as secretary general. In 1973, she was asked to assume responsibility for the congregation as Mother General, a post which she held until the Chapter in September 1974.
1931 – March 3rd 2015
Ann Isobel McKiernan was born in Armagh in 1931. She was educated at Saint Malachy’s Primary School and the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Armagh. She had two brothers: Johnny and Father George, a Passionist priest, and one sister, Madge. Ann joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1949.
After profession Sr. Josefa trained as a radiographer in University College Dublin. She did her practical training in the hospital in Drogheda, and then worked for six years there. In 1960 she was assigned to Nigeria. She spent three years in Anua, working in the pharmacy and x-ray departments. At the end of 1962 she went to Afikpo and again worked in the pharmacy and x-ray departments. She had to leave in 1967 when war broke out in Nigeria.
Sister Agnes was born in Liscloonadea, Mohill, Co. Leitrim, in 1924, the second youngest of five girls and four boys. She attended the local primary school and Mohill Technical School and in 1943 went to England with three of her sisters to train as a nurse. While working there in 1948, another nurse told her about a film called Visitation.
Sister Mary was born in Emyvale, Co. Monaghan, in 1942, the eldest of three children. Their mother died when Mary was fifteen years old. After primary school, Mary went to stay with her Aunt Mary in Dublin during her secondary school education. She trained as a secretary and worked for the Land Commission for a year and a half. During that time she attended classes in drama and studied French and Italian. She joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1962.
After profession Mary qualified as a nurse-midwife and obtained a certificate in tropical medicine in Liverpool, England. Her first assignment was to Leon, Spain, in 1971, where she spent two and a half years and made her final profession.
