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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 ...
Sister Stanislaus ''Stan'' Kennedy is an Irish nun, social activist, and former member of the Irish Council of State. She was born Treasa Kennedy in 1939 or 1940 near Lispole on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. [1] [2] [3] In 1958 she joined the Religious Sisters of Charity. [2]
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.
This decision later caused conflict between the Australian recruits and the original Irish sisters. [1] Gibbons professed as Mary Scholastica on 17 July 1847, [2] and worked at the congregation's mission at a female penitentiary in Parramatta. The convent closed in 1848, the sisters joined with the Sydney convent, where Gibbons founded a home ...
The Irish Famine led to a large-scale movement of people from rural areas into cities, including Dublin, which led to increased pressure on the charitable institutions of these areas. Aylward's efforts were part of this wider charitable effort to help the poor, particularly Catholics who were seen to be at risk of coercive religious conversion ...
Both orders are members of the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition. [5] For more than a decade, the public has been welcomed to ecumenical Evening Prayer in the Saint John Region of New Brunswick. The Sisters serve in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and Peru. [7]