School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)days of the Daily mass crusade.
She was justly admired through extraordinary piety zeal and charity.
After having manifested heroic patience and resignation during four years and a halfof intense suffering it pleased the almighty, through the powerful ellicacy of the most Adorable Sacrifice of the mass, offered 1st August 1823 by the Rev Prince Alev Hohenlohe to restore her instaneously to perfect health, which she afterwards enjoyed for nearly ten years, during which she devoted herself with increased ardour to the glory of God.
The convent building still stands though now a private dwelling.
Afterwards the sisters of St Josephs of Cluny, occupied it until the opening of their neighbouring fine convent Mount Sackville . Later the great work of the Holy Ghost Fathers now perpetuated in the well known Blackrock College had its beginning upon the same spot
Monica O'Reilly
- Collector
- Monica O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs O' Reilly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin
