Obituary

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 27, 12 July 1923, Page 31

Obituary

MOTHER M. ST. GERTRUDE, INSTITUTE OF NOTRE DAME DES MISSIONS . CHRISTCHURCH. The Sisters of the Missions, Christchurch, have suffered a serious loss in the death of Mother M. St. Gertrude, which occurred in the early morning of July 6, at the eon vent, Ferry Road. The deceased religious, who was in f her 64th year, was born in Galway, Ireland, and came to Christchurch with• her parents when'only a child. She was educated at the boarding school of the convent in which it was her (privilege in later years to labor so devotedly, and in which she. died. She entered the religious life in the bloom of her youth, and soon after her profession was appointed assistant novice-mistress.. Since then she has held* various offices in the convents of her Institute, being Superior at Leeston, Cambridge, Stratford, Ellerslie, Rangiora, .and Petone, and Provincial- '■ Councillor at Christchurch for the- five years before her '": .death. x Throughout a§ long/ religious life extending over forty years she ever proved herself a model in charity, : .devotedness, and true humility,-serving God with all the ardor of her simple, confident faith. Her days were indeed filled with merits and- good works, and it will be long before the gentle, unassuming little Mother will be forgotten by the Sisters and pupils whose love and esteem she had so' genuinely merited. - ; -V Requiem Mass was celebrated in the convent. chapel by his Lordship Bishop Brodie, assisted by Reverend Fathers Bonetto, - Healey, Gordon,:: and Joyce, -the ; music of the ?! Mass being rendered by the Sisters' choir.—R.l.P. WM I