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