Sister Mary Patrick Collins

Sister Mary Patrick Collins

Mary Catherine, daughter of Francis Collins and Gertrude Mary Garry, was born on April 14, 1882, and baptized in St. Mark’s Church, Prescott, on May 20 of the same year. In 1905 she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Providence, and after profession in 1908 was...
Sister Mary Albert Gribbon

Sister Mary Albert Gribbon

On January 30, 1968, Sister Mary Albert died in the Marian Infirmary, “Heathfield”, Kingston. The former Sarah Ann Gribbon was born and baptized in the parish of St. Alphonsus, Chapeau, P.Q., in the diocese on Pembroke. She was trained as a teacher and after following...
Sister Mary Evangelist Byrne

Sister Mary Evangelist Byrne

Sister Mary Evangelist, a patient at the Marian Infirmary, “Heathfield”, since 1951 died on June 2, the Feast of the Sacred Heart, 1967. The former Henrietta Byrne, daughter of John Byrne and Catherine Bennett, was born in the rural parish of Stanleyville seven miles...
Sister Mary Jane Prior

Sister Mary Jane Prior

On October 7, the feast of the Holy Rosary, 1919, Marie Prior, the daughter of Timothy Prior and Jane Walsh, left her lovely farm home on Howe Island, her four brothers and her widowed mother to enter the Novitiate of the Sisters of Providence where her maternal aunt,...
Sister Mary of Nazareth MacDonell

Sister Mary of Nazareth MacDonell

The Sisters of Providence, “Heathfield” lost their eldest member on May 9th when Sister Mary of Nazareth died at the Marian Infirmary. Sister was in her ninety-third year and the seventy-third of her religious life. Born in the historic parish of St. Raphael’s,...