The Venerable Honor Nano Nagle

Katharine once said, “Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive which actuates this collaboration the higher, no doubt, will be the union. Now the end in question is supremely exalted: the continuous sanctification of the Body for the glory of God and the Lamb that was slain.” (A-Z Quotes). This quote describes Katharine’s way of working towards creating her orphanages and schools with her order. Despite overcoming many difficulties in her earlier life, Saint Katharine Drexel created her own religious order, donated generously to charities, and established schools to teach the faith the others; consequently, she is one of the most dynamic missionary saints from America.

One aspect of nursing that has changed since the early 1800’s is nursing education. There was no question about the credibility of the women providing care to soldiers after the war. For many years untrained nurses and consequently nursing students cared the sick without any supervision. In 1873, the need for educated nurses was sought but was opposed by untrained physicians who thought trained nurses would pose a threat to their jobs (Gary & Hott, 1988). “Nurses have evolved

The Sisters of St Joseph have made many contributions to the Catholic Church, some of which include providing education for the poor, caring for children and the elderly, and providing pastoral support. They have also set up spirituality centres where they can provide support and opportunities for people to

In early 1800’s a hospital in Sydney was opened, in this time it was mainly unskilled convict women that were performing as nurses they were often described as being of poor character and drunks. The first trained nurses arrived in Sydney in 1838 they were the five Irish Sisters of Charity. The

The Sisters of Saint Joseph aimed to provide education for the children of Penola. In 1900, they had made foundations in all 7 states of Australia and New Zealand and all 600 Sister mourned the passing of Mary Mackillop in 1909. The Sisters of Saint Joseph are involved with many things including the work which is involved

The two women I have chosen to focus on are Robyn and Tusa as well as looking at the role that the religious mentor to the women, Sister Hilda, played in developing these two women’s personal faith.

Unemployment and financial struggles grew with this increasing population. Male dominance was considered the norm so women were left with unjust opportunities for unemployment and equality in the workplace (Women's Diaries, 1997). The Golding Sisters felt it was their duty to bring peace and equality to society so established such foundations as the Women’s Organising Society. By 1900, five million women were in the labor force (Women's Diaries, 1997). The Golding Sisters worked hard to remove discrimination from society, resulting in multicultural immigrants participating freely in Church activities and masses. The Church became what 19th Century Irish bishops hoped for; a Church based on the Irish model (Dixon, 2005). Their work was often described as a ‘practical expression of the Catholic faith’ (Fawkner & Kelly, 1995). Thus, the Golding Sisters should be commemorated for their works that changed the society and church for the better by receiving the Good Christian award.

Isabel Allende’s short story “Clarisa” records the story of a woman, reverenced by the people of her community and who is kind without exception, even to those who wished her harm. “Clarisa gave everything she owned to the needy, ”(Allende 36). Her generous nature and adherence to helping others depicts Clarisa as the model of affection and compassion, who gives absolutely everything she owns and even spends “ the last cent of her dowry and inheritance” (Allende 434). For this very reason others hold her in high esteem and perceive her as saintlike.

•     Theresian Club: This sodality helped the children from less enthusiastic Catholic Homes and taught them about their faith. They were mostly religious women, and they had many practices within the church.

St. Margaret was canonized a saint in 1250 by Pope Innocent IV in recognition of her “personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity.” On June 19th, 1250, her remains were taken to a chapel in Dunfermline Abbey where she was buried before the high altar. Today, we celebrate her feast day on November 16th (the day of her death.) She is patron of Scotland and known as “The Pearl of Scotland.” There are hundreds of schools named after St. Margaret that remember her reformation of the church and help to the poor.

During the eighteenth century, marriage was a representation of not only the unity between man and women but it was also a representation of a woman taking a servile, less meaningful role in the household. Once married, women were expected to be completely submissive to their husbands. This was the norm across Europe and even in enlightened society. These relationships were hierarchical. It was not customary for women to attend schools that educated men the math and sciences. Women holding privileged positons in society traditionally allotted to men were seen as the exception. Yet these exceptions did not generally bother society because they did not lead to certain conclusion that women could do anything. In Gotthold Lessing’s novel “Nathan the Wise” and Francoise de Graffigny’s “Letters from a Peruvian Woman”, both authors upset traditional expectations about what constitutes a novel’s happy ending by refusing to end either of their novels with weddings. In Lessing’s “Nathan the Wise”, the rejection of marriage plot reflects a larger symbolic representation of religious tolerance. While in Graffigny’s novel “Letters from a Peruvian Woman”, the rejection of marriage plots illustrates a woman whose circumstances would make her the exception. Zilia, Graffigny’s main character, was an enlightened woman who chose sovereignty over servitude. Therefore, I would argue that the intentions behind both Lessing and Graffigny’s rejection of the marriage plot was not to serve the same

Zemon-Davis and Engel diverge when they draw historical conclusions from these source materials. Zemon-Davis uses each woman to illustrate different aspects of the margins. Whether they were religious or social. By doing so Zemon-Davis traces a narrative of adaption, like Glikl who adapted to the social realities of Jews in Germany during the seventeenth-century. But Zemon-Davis also draws our attention to how those women struggled to operate within, or push, the margins on which their sex placed them. Like Maria Merian's determination to study the tropics of America. Or how Marie Guyart disregarded social obligations and left her son to pursue founding a convent in Quebec. Engel uses the petitions she narrates to show how peasant women and

For almost 130 years, Margaret’s teachings have still impacted many people’s lives by helping them function, be active, and to take part in society. Bancroft Training School, services has

Sister Ita Ford (23 April 1940 - 2 December 1980) was an American Catholic Maryknoll Sister. The Maryknoll Sisters serve the needs of people from around the world. Ford served as a missionary in Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She entered the Maryknoll Sisters at the age of 21, but had to leave the program a few years later due to ill health. She worked as an editor at a publishing company for seven years and then joined the Maryknoll Sisters again in 1971. She helped many people with their needs, especially the poor. She worked with the Emergency Refugee Committee in Chalatenango to provide food, shelter and transportation to the poor and war victims. … Whilst she was in El Salvador, there were a lot of deaths caused by the military every

In Calcutta, and around the world, Mother Teresa aided poor, dying and sick through her love for everyone, and the vow of poverty as her influence. A nun, though the vow of poverty, is to imitate Jesus in his helping of those that were poor and suffering. Though Mother Teresa was poor herself, she tried, and