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Nano Nagle started the Presentations sister. This group started many schools all across Ireland. there were up to five hundred schools located and these schools taught and housed up to twenty thousand students. This organisation still thrives to this day helping back any other organisations and proclaiming the good news of God.
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Nano Nagle, otherwise known as the 'Lady of the Lantern", was an Irish woman who had returned to Ireland where she spent her days looking after children. Nano Nagle would look after the poor children teaching them about catechism reading, writing and mathematics. She then went off to visit the sick and the poor children often seen going down dark alleys with only a lantern to see them. Later Nano Nagle began a covenant where women were taught to look after the sick and the poor. -
Edmund Rice dedicated his life to helping those who were marginalized and who were poor. Edmund was an educator who made sure that anyone he helped had the appropriate life skills. Edmund and two other men had dedicated their lives to helping those in need. Edmund soon started the Christian Brothers who founded many congregations. Edmund is the reason that many people were helped and that many schools and churches have begun, all founded by the Christian brothers. -
Elizabeth Seton created the first Catholic schools in the United States. Elizabeth established the Catholic schooling system in the U.S. She dedicated her life to teaching poor children especially young girls who were often uneducated. Later Elizabeth started her own school which then kickstarted the newly established schools, along with orphanages and congregations. -
Elizabeth after moving to Emmitsburg formally started the sisters of Charity, the first women's congregation in the United States. She became head of the group where she served in the group for twelve years.
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Catherine McAuley used her inheritance to open up a house of mercy. Catherine started this establishment to care for and educate the poor girls and women and give them a place to stay. The house was also created as a refuge fo women who were used as servants and exposed to sexual assault. The last intention of the house was to be a congregation where she and the volunteers could reach out to the sick and the poor and offer their help. -
Mary MacKillop started the sisters of St Joseph. she became an ordained mother superior in the sister's group. Her work then spread to many cities where the sister started many schools, orphanages and refugees for women who were poor, homeless or just released from prison
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In 1866 Mary Mackillop created the first order of nuns in Australia, started the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart and began St. Joseph school in a barn in Penola. Mary Mackillop provided free education for poor children and helped them if they struggled with their home life. Father Woods had built the school and when he left, Mary and her sister Annie took over the school continuing to teach the students. -
St Vincent de Paul was a man who dedicated his life to helping the poor and the marginalized. Vincent was ordained in 1737 and in 1883 the church designated Vincent to be the patron saint of charitable associations. This is why the charitable associations we know as Vinnies were named after St Vincent de Paul. St Vincent De Paul preached to the poor and taught them about faith and about the work and parables of Jesus.