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Sister Malia Tenisia Po’oi
Malia, from Tonga, trained to be a nurse at Wellington Polytechnic. After completing her nursing training she discerned that Religious life was not for her.
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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 Casimir Cahill
Patricia Josephine Cahill was born in Auckland on the 17 March, 1913, the third daughter of William John Cahill, Engineer, and Mary Anne Cahill [nee O’Leary] in a family of seven children...