During our opening school mass Fr John blessed our new House, Nagle.
Nano Nagle was born in 1718 at Ballygriffin in Cork, Ireland. As she got older she came to realise that her vocation was to address the injustice of the Penal Laws by educating poor Irish children and caring for those who were the most poor and oppressed.
In January 1775, at the age of 56, Nano invited two young women who assisted her in the schools to join her as the first members of her own religious order which was to become known as “The Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary”.
When Kildare Ministries was officially launched in 2014, it comprised the educational and community works of the Brigidine Congregations and the Presentation Congregation of Victoria.
It is fitting that this year, on the 300th anniversary of her birth, we introduce her legacy into our College.
Enrico Caprioli
APRIM
