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Sister Emaleti Konokono
In 2009 Sister Ema attended a course in Wellington on Teaching Christian Meditation to Children, run by Ruth Fowler from Australia, where a diocese-wide initiative to teach children to meditate had been running since 2006...
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Sister Annunciata Mears
Catherine Mary Mears was born at Reefton on 7 November 1892. Her parents were John and Mary Mears [nee McConnell]. Catherine trained as a nurse and completed her General Nursing Training at Westport Hospital...
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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.