Sister Mary Urban Coleman

Sister Mary Urban Coleman

On the 10th day of May 1916, there came to the Providence for entrance into our Novitiate a bright little lady. Acting under the advice of Rev. J.L. Cotter, S.J. she had obtained permission for this initial step in the Religious life some months before. Elizabeth...
Sister Mary Edmund Scott

Sister Mary Edmund Scott

The death of Sister Mary Edmund, House of Providence, on Saturday, May 26th, has called to a better life a glowing example of self-sacrificing devotion to all conditions of suffering humanity. While her work was not performed in the lime light, to be applauded by the...
Sister Mary Thomas Murphy

Sister Mary Thomas Murphy

“When we shall die, or where we shall die, God alone can tell.” The truths of these words were brought home to our beloved Sister Mary Thomas and to us all on that eventful day Monday March 26, 1923. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the telephone rang, “A message from...
Sister Mary Bernarda Morrisey

Sister Mary Bernarda Morrisey

Our Divine Lord has His own time and manner of calling labourers into His vineyard, also, does he stipulate the length of time each may give to His service. It sometimes happens that one feels an attraction to the Religious Life, would like to embrace it, but owing to...
Sister Mary Jane de Chantal McAuley

Sister Mary Jane de Chantal McAuley

We marvel at what the founders and foundresses of Religious Orders of necessity have passed through and endured. Their lives of devotedness, of generous self-sacrifice are an example, a stimulus to those who come after them. The subject of this sketch, though not...