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Sister Emmanuel Peters
Clare Louisa Peters was born in Auckland on 18 May, 1886. Clare entered the Sisters of Compassion, Island Bay, on 30 November, 1912, and began her Novitiate training on 2 October, 1913, when she was given her Religious name Sister Mary Emmanuel. Sister was professed on 14 October, 1915...
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Sister Kathleen Crean
Kathleen Theresa Crean was born in Blackstoops, Enniscorthy, Wexford, Eire. Sister Kathleen started her life on one side of the world and ended it on the other after travelling to New Zealand in 1959 and following the Lord’s call.
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Sister Cecilia Scanlon
Island Bay’s Own ‘Flying Nun’: It started as a joke but before she knew it, Sister Cecilia, celebrating her 80 birthday, was flying down The Parade in Island Bay on the back of her neighbour’s Harley Davidson motorbike.