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Sister Elizabeth Slattery
Alice Slattery was born at Remuera, Auckland, on August 4, 1904. On the day she entered the Sisters of Compassion at Island Bay on 12 November, 1920, Mother Aubert came to the top of the hill to greet her as she walked up from the tram...
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Sister Carmel Gallagher
Sarah Gallagher was born in Glenswilly, County of Donegal, Ireland on the 1 May, 1860. Her parents were Hugh Gallagher and Sarah Monner. She came out to New Zealand to be with her brother and family on the West Coast. After a while they went to live in Oamaru, but in the early 1880's they shifted to Wellington...
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Sister Aquinas Byrne
Mary Anne Byrne was born in Blenheim. Her parents were Denis and Mary Byrne (nee Wallace). Mary with her sister and three brothers lived and received their primary education in the local catholic primary school in Blenheim...