Eileen Rosaline O'Connor

Eileen Rosaline O'Connor is a 20th century Australian nun who Founded, organized and led the Society of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor (Brown Sisters).

She was born 19 February 1892 in Richmond, Victoria a working class suburb of Melbourne, and sustained serious back injury in her childhood.

She claimed to have had a Marian visitation in her teens.[1][2][3] and in 1913 founded the Society of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she worked for the remainder of her life.[4]

She died 10 January 1921 in Coogee, New South Wales.[5]

Today she is counted Servant of God.

References

  1. O'Connor, Eily Rosaline at Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, (MUP), 1988.
  2. Eileen Rosaline O’Connor at Saints.SQPN.com.
  3. Freeman's Journal (Sydney), 21 Jan 1921.
  4. Oswin McKinney, A Remarkable Life: Eileen Rosaline O'Connor (Oswin McKinney, 1992).
  5. Our Lady's Nurses For the poor.
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