Sisters of the Holy Faith

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Sisters of the Holy Faith
Holy Faith Sisters
Formation1857;166 years ago (1857)
Founder Margaret Aylward
Type Catholic religious order
Headquarters Glasnevin, Dublin
Website holyfaithsisters.org

The Sisters of the Holy Faith is a Catholic religious congregation, originally for the care of Catholic orphans. It now works broadly in the areas of education and faith development. The congregation is part of the Vincentian family.

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History

It was founded in Dublin, in 1857, by Margaret Aylward, [1] under the direction of John Gowan from the St. Peter's Vincentian Community in Phibsboro, Dublin.

The founder was called a Confessor of the Faith by Pope Pius IX, because of the imprisonment of six months she endured. She was convicted of contempt of court, but acquitted of a charge of kidnapping, after having refused to produce and return an abandoned child to its mother. [2]

The congregation is especially active in the Archdiocese of Dublin, the residence of the superior general being at Glasnevin, where the sisters conducted a boarding-school for young women. The Glasnevin establishment no longer has a boarding school; the order's archives are stored and maintained here, and the order now has a nursing home, Marian House, on the Glasnevin campus.

The original foundation was St. Brigid's Orphanage, Dublin, where over 3000 orphans were accommodated and trained. [3]

Activities

The order's ministry is in education, faith development and the promotion of justice. They set up and run a number of primary and secondary schools primarily in Dublin. Today the order works in Ireland, United States of America, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and South Sudan. [4]

The Holy Faith sisters in collaboration with the Saint Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions (Kiltegan Fathers), in 2013, worked to set up a primary school in Riwoto, South Sudan. [4] [5]

The St. Johns Education Centre is an initiative established in 1999 by the Holy Faith Sisters and De La Salle Brothers, to help students at risk of dropping out of the education system. [6]

The Margaret Aylward Centre for Faith and Dialogue was built on the grounds of the Holy Faith Convent, in Glasnevin, [7] in 2014 it held its inaugural lecture. The centre is used for conferences, meetings, retreats, [8] lectures and courses.

Schools

The order's schools in Ireland are part of The Le Cheile Schools Trust: [9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holy Faith Sisters - Beginnings Archived 2007-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Margaret Helen Preston, Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin (2004), p. 88.
  3. ↑ Sister of the Holy Faith New Advent
  4. 1 2 Republic of South Sudan St. Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions
  5. ↑ Home from South Sudan Margaret Aylward Centre
  6. ↑ About Us St. Johns Education Centre
  7. ↑ The Margaret Aylward Centre for Faith and Dialogue Glasnevin parish.
  8. ↑ The Margaret Aylward Centre for Faith and Dialogue Retreats Ireland.
  9. ↑ Holy Faith Sisters Le Cheile Schools Trust.
  10. ↑ St. Brigids National School, Killester
  11. ↑ Holy Faith Secondary School, Clontarf
  12. ↑ St. Mary's Holy Faith Glasnevin
  13. ↑ St. Wolstans Community School
  14. ↑ Tallaght Community School

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