Suzanne Aubert
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Suzanne Aubert (19 June 1835 – 1 October 1926), better known to many by her name of Sister Mary Joseph or Mother Aubert, was a Catholic sister who started a home for orphans and the under-privileged in Jerusalem, New Zealand on the Whanganui River in 1885. She founded a religious order, the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion in 1892. She later started two hospitals in Wellington; the first, St Joseph's Home for Incurables in 1900, and Our Lady's Home of Compassion in 1907.
[edit] References
- Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert, Auckland University Press, Auckland 1996.
- Jessie Munro (ed) (wth the assistance of Sister Bernadette Wrack), Letters on the Go: The Correpondence of Suzanne Aubert, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2009.
[edit] External links
- Objects relating to Mother Aubert from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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