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Home of Compassion Chapel and Resting Place Listed as Historic Place
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga has recognised The Chapel of Our Lady of Compassion and the Resting Place of Meri Hōhepa Suzanne Aubert as a Category 1 Historic Place. The […]
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Sister Felix Breen
Sister Felix (Ellen Catherine) Breen was born in the Tapanui Hospital, about twenty miles from the family farm in Conical Hills, Central Otago. Ellen’s parents were Mary and Jim Breen and she was the second eldest of nine children, five sisters and three brothers...
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Sister Gabriel Henry
Helen Mary Henry was born in Hawera on 18 June, 1906, but spent most of her early life in Wanganui. Her parents were Thomas and Annie Henry (nee Finnerty). Even in those days she must have been a special person, as one of the Sisters can remember a teacher's oft-repeated phrase: ‘If only we had girls like Molly Henry!’...