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We are an order of Catholic Religious Sisters.  Within the wider Franciscan Family we live according to the Rule of the Third Order Regular of St Francis of Assisi and the spirit of our Foundress, Elizabeth (Mother Mary Ignatius) Hayes who took a fourth vow –

“To devote myself to foreign missions

and never by any act of my own will

to seek to be removed from them.”

From the beginning Elizabeth moved quickly to missionary endeavours among the needy.  The following is an excerpt from her diary.

Section of Mother Ignatius' Diary

                                                                           Diary of Elizabeth (Mother M Ignatius) Hayes, Foundress, P.3

Today our sisters in ministries throughout the world, cross boundaries of language, culture and religious belief  bringing Compassion, Love, Joy, Hope and Peace.