Life
1787-1858; b. Cork, 19 Jan.; founder of Irish Sisters of Charity; converted
to Catholicism at 16; raised a Protestant after her father, Dr David Aikenhead,
who converted on his deathbed; after his death; asked by Dr. Murray of
Dublin to found convent; three years noviciate at York; first convent
North William St.; papal recognition in 1816; ill health; reached ten
houses, incl. St. Vincent’s Hospital, the first to be managed by
nun-nurses; d. 22 July; there is a contemporary life by ‘S.A.’
[Sarah Atkinson] (1879). DNB DIB DIH
- Sarah Atkinson, Mary Aikenhead: Her Life, her Work, and Her Friends, by ‘S. A.’ [Sarah Atkinson] (Dublin: Gill 1875 [var. 1879]; rev. edn. 1882).
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