Sister Andrea Nolan

Sister Andrea Nolan

“Compassion is a profound sharing in God’s merciful and tender love for everyone He has created.” Mercy is bestowed with gentleness; tender love is given with a smile. We remember Sr. Andrea Nolan as having the compassion she described in this quotation. It is taken...
Sister Norah Forestell

Sister Norah Forestell

Hanorah (Norah) Margaret Forestell was the third of the six children born to Arnold Forestell and Clara McGillen. She came into this world on July 6, 1921, at Marmora, about twenty miles north of Trenton. Her family never moved far from that southern Ontario area...
Sister Mary Electa Murphy

Sister Mary Electa Murphy

“Happy the one who has heard the call of Jesus to a life of identification. Amid all turmoil you have found the lasting peace of a True Spouse of Jesus. Increasingly make void the self within yourself; petition Jesus to plunge Himself so deeply in you that now and...
Sister Mary Clarissa Whalen

Sister Mary Clarissa Whalen

Sarah Margaret Whalen, affectionately called “Sadie”, was born June 10, 1905, in Hungerford Township, Hastings County. She was the fourth youngest of the fourteen children born to William Whalen and Sarah McGrath. The farm home of the Whalen family was a modest one...
Sister Mary Aileen Malyea

Sister Mary Aileen Malyea

The “City by the Bay” is the hometown of many Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul. The illustrious place at the head of the list of these Sisters from Belleville, Ontario, belongs to Sister Mary Aileen, Malyea. True, two others had entered from this city...