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Nano Nagle

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Honora "Nano" Nagle (1718 – 26 April 1784) founded the "Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary" (PBVM) in Ireland (also known as the "Presentation Sisters") and was a pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland. [1]

17 relations: Catholic Church, Congregation of Christian Brothers, County Cork, Edmund Burke, Edmund Ignatius Rice, Hedge school, James Francis Edward Stuart, Killavullen, Kingdom of Ireland, Munster Blackwater, Penal Laws (Ireland), Petites écoles de Port-Royal, Presentation Sisters, Religious sister, Teacher, The Venerable, Ursulines.

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Congregation of Christian Brothers

The Congregation of Christian Brothers (officially, in Latin: Congregatio Fratrum Christianorum; members of the order use the post-nominal "CFC") is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Edmund Rice (later beatified).

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County Cork

County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is a county in Ireland.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.

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Edmund Ignatius Rice

Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, CFC (Iognáid Rís; 1 June 1762 – 29 August 1844), was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist.

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Hedge school

A hedge school (Irish names include scoil chois claí, scoil ghairid and scoil scairte) were small informal illegal schools, particularly in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland designed to secretly provide the rudiment of elementary education to Catholic children.

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James Francis Edward Stuart

James Francis Edward, Prince of Wales (10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender, was the son of King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena.

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Killavullen

Killavullen is a village on the river Blackwater, in County Cork, Ireland.

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Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland (Classical Irish: Ríoghacht Éireann; Modern Irish: Ríocht Éireann) was a nominal state ruled by the King or Queen of England and later the King or Queen of Great Britain that existed in Ireland from 1542 until 1800.

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Munster Blackwater

The Blackwater or Munster Blackwater (An Abha Mhór, The Big River) is a river which flows through counties Kerry, Cork, and Waterford in Ireland.

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Penal Laws (Ireland)

In the island of Ireland, Penal Laws (Na Péindlíthe) were a series of laws imposed in an attempt to force Irish Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters (such as local Presbyterians) to accept the reformed denomination as defined by the English state established Anglican Church and practised by members of the Irish state established Church of Ireland.

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Petites écoles de Port-Royal

The Petites écoles de Port-Royal was the name given to a teaching system set up in 1637 by the intellectuals who gathered at Port-Royal-des-Champs in the middle of the 17th century at the height of the Jansenist controversy.

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Presentation Sisters

The Presentation Sisters, also known as the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary are a religious institute of Roman Catholic women founded in Cork, Ireland, by Nano (Honora) Nagle in 1775.

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Religious sister

Religious sister in the Catholic Church refers to a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer.

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Teacher

A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.

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The Venerable

The Venerable is used as a style or epithet in several Christian churches.

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Ursulines

The term Ursulines refers to a number of religious institutes of the Catholic Church.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_Nagle

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