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The Union of Presentation Sisters is a congregation of 1,300 women working internationally in thirteen Provinces or Units. Each Unit takes responsibility for its own life and mission in response to the direction of the congregation. (The United States Province is also a member of the Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America.)
The Dominican Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin were founded in 1696 by Marie Poussepin at Sainville in the Diocese of Chartres, for teaching and the care of the sick. At the time of the religious disturbances in France, over 1,700 sisters were engaged in France, Spain, South America, and Asiatic Turkey, where they had charge of ...
The Sisters of the Presentation of Mary (PM) are a religious congregation in the Latin Rite branch of the Catholic Church.It was founded in 1796 at Thueyts in the Ardèche department of south-central France, by Anne-Marie Rivier (1768–1838); originally, the congregation was devoted to the education of young girls.
Honora "Nano" Nagle (c. 1718 – 26 April 1784) was an Irish Catholic religious sister who served as a pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland despite legal prohibitions. . She founded the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly known as the Presentation Sisters, now a worldwide Catholic institute of women religi
A Fitting Response: The History of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis (2 vol. 1992) Quinonez, Lora, and Mary Daniel Turner. The Transformation of American Catholic Sisters (1993) excerpt and text search; Schneider, Mary L. "American Sisters and the Roots of Change: the 1950s." US Catholic Historian (1988): 55-72. JSTOR ...
Mother M. Bernard Kirwan Memorial Municipal Heritage Site, Port Kirwan. After only a year in the community, Kirwan died. According to the convent records, “she was remarkable for a peculiar sweetness of disposition, exalted piety, unbounded Charity, and a burning zeal for the glory of God and the good of her neighbour; her death was like her life most holy.” [8] She was buried under the ...
Mary L. Coloe began her teaching career in primary and secondary education. She is a Presentation Sister. [1] Founded by the venerable Nano Nagle, who was dedicated to educating poor children in Ireland, the Sisters of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic order for women with a focus on teaching in primary and secondary schools.
Presentation Sisters schools (28 P) Pages in category "Presentation Sisters" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.