Golden Jubilee of Mother M. de' Ricci, O.S.D.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8, 25 February 1909, Page 303

Golden Jubilee of Mother M. de' Ricci, O.S.D.

nf Jlf \ir } a - S "^egolden Jubilee of the profession of Mother Mdc Ricci 0.5 .D., of .St. Dominic's Priory, W ? lOT 7 f r M - +I de £ iec > Avas born in Limerick in June, 1837; entered the Dominican Order at Sion Hill Dublin, in 1856, and was professed three years later Of these fifty years of fruitful labor as a religious thirtyST+wT? } Spent l in N |? v Zealand, and it is safe to say that there is scarcely a district in the diocese of Dunedin in which cannot be found some one who at one time or another had benefited by her teaching, advice, and wise wi 11 !?- JW 61 " JP' de Ricei > with nine otlie r Sisters, lert bion Hill for New Zealand in October, 1870. -arriving m Dunedin in February,. 1871, where she was engageS teaching until 1882. Then, accompanied by four. Sisters she^ was sent to open the convent in Invercargilll, and romained "there until 1889. " Being recalled to Dunedin, she occupied the position of Mistress of Novices. In 1804 she went to Lawrence, and in 1898 she had charge of the mission house at Queenstown. The following year, with five Sisters, she went to Western Australia, but her health breaking down towards the end of 1900, she had to return to New Zealand. In 1901 she was' sent iri charge of Cromwell branch -house, but returned to Dunedin in 1907, where she has since been omployed in instructing children and others. Mother M. de Ricci is niece of the late Most Rev. Dr. Kirby, Archbishop of Ephesus, and" Rector of the 1 Irish College, Rome.