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Catherine McAuley, RSM (29 September 1778 – 11 November 1841) was an Irish Catholic religious sister who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831. [1] The women's congregation has always been associated with teaching, especially in Ireland, where the sisters taught Catholics (and at times Protestants) at a time when education was mainly reserved for members of the established Church of Ireland.
The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute for women in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute has about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations. They also started many education and health care facilities around the world.
There was a growth in religious orders for women in Ireland from the early nineteenth century due to a relaxing of anti-Catholic Penal Laws. These included the Irish Sisters of Charity who were established in 1815 under Mary Aikenhead , the Irish Loreto Order (1822) under Frances Ball , and Catherine McAuley's Sisters of Mercy (1831). [ 7 ]
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is the second-largest Christian denomination in Ireland, it dates from the time of the Plantation of Ulster in 1610, with the first Presbyterians coming from Scotland, most presbyterian churches can trace their origins back to the Synod of Ulster (1649), the Presbytery of Dublin (1665) or the Presbytery of ...
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.
Membership in P.E.O. is by invitation but is not secret. In 1966, the Sisterhood had 130,000 members. At that time membership was open to women over the age of eighteen, who believed in God and had lived at their present address for a least a year. It was said to appeal to "Protestant women of some social standing and college education". [10]
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 Silver Sisterhood came to Burtonport from Yorkshire in September 1982 [2] and occupied a large house that had previously been the home of the Atlantis commune (often referred to as the Screamers). [2] They christened the house An Droichead Beo, meaning The Bridge of Life. [2] There were initially seven members. [2] Burtonport, County Donegal