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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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MARTIN(7)
O'Rourke(4)
Little(4)
COOK(4)
May(3)
Murray(1)
Monk(1)
Cross(1)

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Washing(1)
Limerick(1)

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Dear Miss Martin.
& business combined. Well Miss Martin.
not there: they are wheeled off minus the covers. Then Fr. Prior comes along "the boys dinner or supper or breakfast as the case may be was some what cold." What is the cause he wi…

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This was written before he holiday had forgot to post it. by lenstale 2023-04-05/506 Murray Wednesday. Dear Miss Martin. I received your lovely letter this morning it was such a lovely letter just the same as if I was speaking to you so hind & full of advice spiritual & business combined. Well Miss Martin. I must first of all explain to you about moods: Well to start with I get cause very often (cause I am sure if I were blessed with graces I would take as a little trial but good help me I am not gifted with that spirit. Well I go to trouble of getting clishes hot plates etc. flavouring all the rest they are taken up left in the passage (which Fr. John saw one closing the other day) while they go in search of covers. If I am

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2 not there: they are wheeled off minus the covers. Then Fr. Prior comes along "the boys dinner or supper or breakfast as the case may be was some what cold." What is the cause he will say. Well Mrs Martin I may tell you I would do any thing possible for Fr. Prior because I have found him hired most thoughtful & very considerate very much so in fact the kindest mailer I ever had or I am sure ever will meet again so I do the little I can to please him As for Many I don't know what to say I take telling tales or complaining but Many is not up to what she should be. Her impudence knows no bounds I saw Martin one morning she had to take her out of the sink to get her to wash the stairs & passage

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3 outside our clover along. She is suspected to go to domintony of a Tuesday & help waying she never does it. She as Mastron told her loviters along hilly time. She does really. She remains washing up from 9 o'clock until 11 o'clock. Very often I do vegetables my self as she leaves sand so on in them & Fathers complain. Miss Mastron I know I get cross with her I can't help it if I do not she would just slush away any way. I had to go in one day to refectory dust every where Mastron saw it too The lovely Tables which are beauties carelessly polished Fr. Sub Prior passed some remark to In John she did not take them Careless after that. Of des all you are in Dublin Fr. Prior does not stand over me I was not very

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4 much older than Mary is now when I went to Thurles 1st & had to cook for 120 longs 10 picks & 16 staff I had no body very often all day near me still I had to do it & I feel to see how Mary can't do her little bit. If you wrote to her Musis Martin & give her a little lecture I feel sure she would improve. You know as well I do you always have the great virtue of bring back the black sheep to the fold you brought one when you brought — you can guess the rest whom that is. Musis Martin will soon be 12morte here the 16th I trust in god you will be back for that day. Mary is going home on Tuesday next well for her she says her sister & mother are ill she has to go home to see

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