A Sister of Compassion should be found wherever there is good to be done. At the lonely hearth of the poor, at the bedside of the sick dying, in homes for suffering... and to bring to those who suffer the heart of a mother, a sister and Guardian Angel
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Sister Cecilia Crombie
Emmeline Edith Crombie was born at Balart, Victoria, Australia, on 30 December, 1872. Her parents were Charles Melville Crombie and Matilda Margaret Crombie (nee Sibley.) Emmeline entered as a Postulant on 15 August, 1908, and began her Novitiate on 19 March, 1909, receiving the name Sister Mary Cecilia. She was professed on 7 April, 1911...
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Sister Laboure Butler
Philomena Mary was born in lnglewood, the second of three daughters of the late Helen and William Butler. Philomena and her sisters and four brothers lived a typical family life on a farm in the Taranaki district...
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Sister Felicitas Dudson
Sister Felicitas entered the Sisters of Compassion on the same day as I did and we went through all the stages of what it was like to leave Home...