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The Religious Sisters of Charity or Irish Sisters of Charity is a Roman Catholic religious institute founded by Mary Aikenhead in Ireland on 15 January 1815. Its motto is Caritas Christi urget nos ('The love Christ urges us on'; 2 Corinthians 5:14). The institute has its headquarters in Dublin.
The Religious Sisters of Charity (or Irish Sisters of Charity), founded by Mary Aikenhead in 1815, were one of the orders involved in the controversial Magdalene laundries. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] References
The religious institutes, the Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, and Religious Sisters of Charity, have refused demands from the Irish government, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the UN Committee Against Torture to contribute to the compensation fund for surviving victims, an estimated 600 of ...
Both Gibbons and her older sister joined a congregation of five Irish Sisters of Charity at Parramatta, New South Wales. The Archbishop Bede Polding of Sydney was keen to grow the congregation in his archdiocese, waiving the dowries that Gibbons' father was unable to pay on their behalf. This decision later caused conflict between the ...
Anna Gaynor was born in Athlone on 17 March 1826. Her parents were John and Anne Gaynor of Roxborough, County Roscommon.She had four sisters and one brother. One sister, Sarah, was a famous writer, and wrote a biography of the founder of the Religious Sisters of Charity, Mary Aikenhead.
Margaret Louisa Aylward (1810-1889) was an Irish Catholic nun, philanthropist, ... Aylward joined her sister in the Sisters of Charity in 1834 as a novice.
Mary John Baptist De Lacy (born Alicia De Lacy 1 July 1799 - 12 December 1878), was an Irish-born Sister of Charity, and one of the first religious sisters to come to Australia. She was one of five Sisters of Charity who arrived in Sydney in 1838 to serve poor women convicts. She founded and managed the St. Vincent Hospital in Woolloomooloo.
Sr Consilio 'Eileen' Fitzgerald (born 9 January 1937) is an Irish nun who set up Cuan Mhuire, a charitable drug, ... The hospital was run by The Sisters of Charity.