OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 10 August 1911, Page 1527

OBITUARY

MOTHER. MARY VINCENT WHITTY, DUNEDIN. Mother Mary Vincent Whitty, whose death we record _ in this issue, was one of the band of ten Dominican Nuns, who came to Dunedin with the late revered Bishop Moran in 1871. The deceased lady was bom in Pathnames, Co. Dublin, of parents in affluent circumstances. She received her education at Sion Hill Convent, Blackrock, Dublin, where she became a Nun, and made her profession, just fifty-nine years ago. The Sisters were beginning to discuss the preparations for the celebration of the diamond jubilee of the venerable Nun's profession; but death, with sudden stroke, just a little while. after Mass and Holy , Communion, put an end to her long and holy career. She leaves to her Sisters the lesson of a sweet life of fidelity to duty and sincere humility. She filled no high offices; she played no prominent part in the community during those forty years in New Zealand, yet her memory will long survive among the Sisters, as a model of unswerving constancy in obedience and observance of rulethe highest monastic virtues. She was faithful indeed over the ' few things,' and well-founded is the hope that the Master will now 'place her over many.'R.l.P.