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 Mark McLaughlan
Cecilia Margaret was born in Darfield, Canterbury. Her parents were Daniel and Johanna McLaughlin and she had three brothers and three sisters. Cecilia entered the Sisters of Compassion in 1936.
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Sister Majella Dawson
Margaret Mary Dawson was born on 16 May, 1914, in Lislea, Ireland. Her parents were Peter and Brigid Dawson (nee Quinn). Margaret Mary was the third child in a family of five, the eldest her brother Joe, and her sisters Maureen, Bridie, and Joan who was born in New Zealand.
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Sister Immaculata Wall
Agnes Irene Wall was born on 7 January 1918, at Lower Hutt. Her parents were Raymond Nonnatus and Mary Ellen Wall (nee Maher).