Account of the Medical Missionaries of Mary

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Monastery: Glenstal Abbey, Murroe
Subject: Monastery, Monks, Religious Life
Creator: Glenstal Abbey
Place: Murroe, Limerick, Cashel Diocese, Diocese of Cashel
Language: English
Glenstal Abbey: Morther Mary Martin Collection, Religious Sisters, Correspondence, Medical Missionaries of Mary Foundation, Foundation, Sister Novices
Glenstal Abbey: Letters, Prior, Medical Missionaries of Mary
Religious Sisters: Medical Missionaries of Mary, Mother Mary Martin, Foundation
Subject: Nuns, Sisters, Religious Congreations, Religious Life, Foundation of a Congregation, Monastic Life, Mother Superiors
Date: 1930-40, 1930's-1940's, 30's, Thirties
Place: Murroe, Monkstown, Dublin, Limerick, Cashel, Diocese of Cashel
Topic: Religious Life, Religious Formation, Spiritual guidance

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wholeheartedly from the Holy See has its
Holy See such an enthusiastic approval
Congregations working in this Delegation

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Congregations working in this Delegation expressing my warmest congratulations approval of something which is good in of the new Missionary Congregation . No wholeheartedly from the Holy See has its in Africa , I have been privileged to see your capacity of Foundress and Superioress doubt , this wonderful way of giving you Missionaries . Let me , therefore , begin by attached to your undertaking - nay , the meaning . It means , besides the ordinary From the letter of Mr. Riberi : fully qualified Doctors . During my tours Holy See such an enthusiastic approval pressing urgency of your intended work . itself , the supreme importance which is after consultation with the Sacred Congre- an approval that comes so promptly and of the new Congregation of Mary's Medical gation of Propaganda , to urge on the It has already been my pleasant duty , for having so quickly secured from the This is the first letter I write you in the necessity of having Sisters who are Superiors General of various Missionary Dear Rev. Mother , how much they can do in the Mission 1 ?

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The Society is a religious institute , its obligations of religious . The members will proficiency ; and it is the aim of the on the spirit of prayer , mortification and will be freed from some of the practices For the purpose of their work the members aim at combining the highest religious Constitutions , rules and training to secure humility , and manifesting itself in the members being true religious , with public formative influences will be made up by the cultivation of an intense interior life vows and all the rights and helps and and maintain these essential qualifications . of religious life ; but the absence of these fervour with the fullest professional who are graduates of a recognised school . The requirements for admission are as founded and rooted in charity , nourished Non-qualified Members help their Sister Nurses , Midwives , Chemists and Dentists laid down by Canon Law and the Consti- or non-Medical Members . purest zeal for souls that have been tutions . Candidates are admitted as Medical ransomed by Christ's Precious Blood . " Medical Members include Doctors , Doctors and Nurses in their medical work .