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Catholic religious order. Headquarters. France. Website. bonsecours .org. The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours is an international Roman Catholic women's religious congregation for nursing ( gardes malades ), whose declared mission is to care for those who are sick and dying. It was founded by Josephine Potel in 1824, in Paris, France.
The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (also known as St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, or locally simply as The Home) [1] that operated between 1925 and 1961 in the town of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children. The Home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters, a religious order of Catholic nuns ...
It was included in an investigation by the Irish government following the discovery of hundreds of bodies at Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway. The Home was run by Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious order of Catholic nuns. The home was one of the largest in Ireland, with 9,768 women and 8,938 ...
Coordinates: 53.676430°N 7.299739°W. The Castlepollard Mother & Baby Home (also known as the Sacred Hearts Home) [1] that operated between 1935 and 1971 in the town of Castlepollard, County Westmeath, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children in the former Kinturk Demesne or Manor previously owned by the 'Old ...
Bon Secours Hospital, Dublin, is an independent acute care hospital located in Glasnevin in North Dublin established in 1951. It was the first in Ireland to receive Joint Commission International accreditation. [4] Bon Secours Hospital, Galway, was built in 1954 and was known then as Calvary Hospital. It was owned and managed by the Sisters of ...
Catherine Corless ( née Farrell; born 1954) [ 1] is an Irish historian, known for her work in compiling the information concerning the deaths of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Galway. After gaining an interest in local history from attending an evening course, Corless decided to write an article about the mother and ...
Irish Magdalene Laundry, c. early 1900s. The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [1] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in ...
Mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, Galway View of the mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, County Galway. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation (officially the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters) was a judicial commission of investigation, established in 2015 by the Irish government to ...