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Sister Joseph O’Leary
Mary Elizabeth O’Leary was born on 12 August, 1914; on the eve of the First World War. Mary was the second eldest in a family of four, three boys and the one girl. Mollie, as she was always called lived most of her early life in Petone.
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Sister Kathleen Desmond
Kathleen Elizabeth Desmond, the only daughter of Harold and Elizabeth Desmond, was born in Wellington where she and her three brothers, Fred, Joe and Phil, spent their childhood...
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Sister Susan Cosgrove
"In 1968 when I was aged just 17 I felt confident that my vocation was a call to be a Sister of Compassion...