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Mount Sackville remembers 160 years of Cluny Education in Ireland Mount
Sackville remembers 160 years of Cluny Education in Ireland Mount Sackville
remembers 160 years of Cluny Education in Ireland md3.jpgMD5.jpgMD6.jpg Saturday
the 12th of December, 2020 marks the 160th anniversary of the Sisters of St
Joseph of Cluny in Ireland. We wish to acknowledge the contribution and
achievements of the Sisters who have been synonymous with the education of young
women in Ireland for many generations. The order, founded in France in 1807 by
Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey, has been instrumental in the education of thousands
of young women as well as providing a novitiate for those who received God’s
calling. In recent years they have also been involved in providing nursing care
for the elderly. “ We have been asked to go to Ireland to teach the poor and the
well -to- do. I have been assured that we could do much good there. If such be
the will of God, I agree to this foundation with all my heart”. Blessed Anne
Marie wrote the above in 1850. However, it was to be ten years before the
congregation would set foot on Irish soil. From the time the penal laws ended
many bishops encouraged religious orders to come to Ireland. The Ireland of 1860
was very different from today. Irish land was owned by landlords who played a
pivotal role in shaping the rural fabric of the country and landlord–tenant
relationships came to dominate the mid-Victorian period.
