Sister Mary Flavian Kearney

Sister Mary Flavian Kearney

On September 1, 1978, a venerable member of our Community went to her eternal reward, when at St. Mary’s of the Lake Hospital, Sister Mary Flavian died one month before her ninety-second birthday and in the sixty-seventh year of her religious life. Honora Mary Kearney...
Sister Lorraine Chapelle

Sister Lorraine Chapelle

Theresa Veronica Chapelle was born in Belleville, Ontario, on September 5, 1927. Her mother, Julia Mullin, died just as Veronica was completing high school. Her pious and devoted father, John, was, during this trial, and all his life, a strong Christian model for his...
Sister Mary Alda McDonald

Sister Mary Alda McDonald

On February 2, 1978, at Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, Sister Mary Alda died in her sixty-second year as a member of our Community, the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul. Born on January 18, 1896, at Bath, Ontario, Mary Gertrude was the youngest of a family...
Sister Mary Majella Kerr

Sister Mary Majella Kerr

In the summer of 1921 the novitiate at the House of Providence admitted twelve young ladies, eight from Kingston diocese, one from Toronto, one from Alexandria-Cornwall, and two from Edmonton, Alberta. And rather unusual in the story of a group of candidates, all...
Sister Mary Grace Canning

Sister Mary Grace Canning

Sister Mary Grace, Elizabeth Rosalia Canning, died at the Marian Infirmary of the Motherhouse, “Heathfield”, on July 27, 1977. She was the last of our Sisters to enter the Novitiate from the diocese of Boston, Massachusetts, where our Community in 1873 established at...