After her Profession in 1993, Esther commenced teacher training at Corpus Christi, College, Fiji. Following graduation, she taught at St Agnes School. Sister Esther later went to America to do studies in Religious Formation at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. This equipped her for the position she later held as Novice Mistress. In 2020 Archbishop Loy Chong asked Esther to receive the Commemorative Medal for Fiji’s 50 Anniversary of Independence on behalf of the Religious in Fiji.
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Sister Margaret Burton
Annie Cecilia Burton was born in Blenheim, on 12 October, 1893. Her parents were Francis and Annie Burton (nee Burke).
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Sister Germaine Ward
Lucy May Ward was born at Kingston, England, on 9 November 1905. Her parents were George and Flora Adeline Ward.
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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...