Nano Nagle

Nano ( Honoria ) Nagle (* 1718 in Ballygriffin at Killavullen, County Cork ( Ireland), † April 26, 1784 in Cork) was a nun and founded on December 24, 1775 in Cork, the Roman Catholic Congregation of the " Union of Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary " ( Order code: PBVM ).

Life

Nano Nagle was born into a traditionally conservative Irish Catholic family, she had four sisters and two brothers. Her parents Garret Nagle and Ann Nagle (born Matthew ) were wealthy landowners whose large estates were grouped around Ballygriffin. Since a conversion to the " Church of England " was not considered ( this would have been forcibly required to be enrolled in school in Ireland), she was sent to a school in Paris. After graduation, she returned to Ireland and lived with her mother in Dublin.

The death of her father, her mother and her sister Ann caused them to return to their birthplace Ballygriffin. Here the desire to join the Ursulines grew. She decided to join a convent in France, as they believed to be infringed on the " Penal Laws ," the anti- Catholic laws in Ireland, protected.

She devoted her whole life to the Catholic education of children. She lived in personal poverty and took over her body no consideration. After a short and severe illness, she died on April 26, 1784 Her last words were: ". Donation yourself for the poor".

The appeal

In 1775, she began in a French Ursuline convent novitiate for a consecrated life. On June 29, 1776, they received her habit and on June 24, 1777 she completed her one-year solemn vow. Mid-year 1777 returned sister Honoria, as she was now, back to Ireland and opened the first Catholic school, called a stern school in her hometown. The operation had to remain secret from the Irish government; the lessons were therefore held mostly in the evening and at night. Soon Nano Nagle was nicknamed " woman with the lantern ", as they visited the poor in places at night time and after work. In rapid succession, it established in County Cork two girls 'schools and five boys' schools. On Christmas Day 1777, she founded the first convent in Ireland under the name of "Mother Mary of St. John of God ", the Order resulting therefrom initially called " Sisters of the Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus." Later the religious name " Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary " has been changed ( Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Admission of Mary in the Temple in Jerusalem was a spiritual favorite idea of Nana Nagle. The popular designation was " Presentation Sisters".

Honors

She became the namesake for schools and poor facilities worldwide. In Cork a bridge over the River Lee River was named after her in 1985. In 2003 she was named in Ireland for Irish important person of all time, in 2005 she was awarded the third place. On the occasion of the 200th founding year of the Congregation gave the Irish Post Office issued two commemorative stamps. Historically, it is also classified in the number of women fighters.