Responding to the Call

BY SISTER PEGGY FLANAGAN The original committee, which resulted from the fourth directional statement of Chapter/94, was called Healing Violence Against Women. Our mandate to provide a major conference every two years on some aspect of Healing Violence over a period...
Special Documents Returned

Special Documents Returned

Providence Care archivist Megan Kerrigan delivers the plans to Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul archivist Danielle Hughes BY DANIELLE HUGHES Ninety-two years after preparations for a new hospital to be built and operated by the Sisters of Providence in...
Vocation News April 2009

Vocation News April 2009

Sister Barbara Thiffault spoke about each person’s call from God and shared aspects of her life. BY SR. BARBARA THIFFAULT The Vocation Team, now the Vocation/ Formation Team, continues its work of Vocation Ministry. The members of the Team are Sister Barbara Thiffault...
Sister Grace Maguire

Sister Grace Maguire

Grace Maguire was born on April 22, 1923 in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, Ireland, to Francis Maguire and Rose Burns, the tenth in a family of six boys and five girls. The family immigrated to St. Brides, Alberta in 1927 when Grace was four years old. The older members...
Sister Marion Farnand

Sister Marion Farnand

Marguerite Marion Farnand was born on February 9, 1908 in Buckingham, Quebec, a town located in the foothills of the Laurentians about twenty miles from Ottawa. She was the eldest of ten children born to Mary Ellen Lavell and Anthony Farnand. Her parents owned a farm...