Letter to Cardinal from Abbey

Acknowledging instructions of Congregation

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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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With regard to the financial aspect of our undertaking, we have hitherto been self-supporting, having an income of £250 per annum, the pension of one of our members, and a sum of £…
us to go forward, which I enclose together with a letter from the Superior-General of the Society of St. Patrick. Meantime, we have arranged for two Catholic secular nurses to hold…
With regard to the financial aspect of our undertaking, we have hitherto been self-supporting, having an income of £250 per annum, the pension of one of our members, and a sum of £…

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CLEMENTAL PRIORY, O.S.B. MURROE, LIDMERICK Feast of The Annunciation. 2023-1-27/489 My Lord Cardinal, The Instructions issued by this Sacred Congregation to Religious Institutions of Women on February 11th., 1936, has afforded great joy and encouragement to those who realize from their own experience the urgent need of making more adequate provision for the care of mothers and children in Pagan lands. After several years of active Missionary work in Africa and a careful study of the whole delicate question, I have long desired to take part in the formation of a new Society which, while embracing all branches of medical assistance, would, in imitation of Our Lady's Visitation to St. Elisabeth, be dedicated more specially to maternity cases- a project which seems to conform exactly to the desire of this Sacred Congregation. Actuated by the same motives, a number of Irish women have joined with me in dedicating their lives to the spiritual and bodily succour of their sisters in missionary countries. This group at present consists of two certified midwives, one of whom is a fully-trained nurse; two members, having completed time of probation and spiritual year, leaving for maternity training in the National Maternity Hospital this Spring, having first taken private vows; other members are being spiritually formed and tested with the view of being trained technically; one fully

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