Mary Ellen Czelusinak
Deaf woman who ministered to the Catholic hearing impaired community of Cleveland.
Deaf woman who ministered to the Catholic hearing impaired community of Cleveland.
Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan (1825-1915) emigrated from Ireland to New York in 1842. She made her profession of vows in 1847 as Sister Mary Xavier and spent the next twelve years as a Sister of Charity in New York.
Flannery O’Connor is considered one of America’s greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century.
Irish doctor, politician, and the first female Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy
Marilyn J. Morheuser (1924-1995), was the director and leading attorney of the Education Law Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Intellectual ‘warrior nun’
First Nations nun who sang for a queen
1800s Irish woman who denounced a man who seduced, impregnated and abandoned her
Lucille “Sweets” Preston rose to prominence in the 1930s as a vaudeville dancer at the Cotton Club and member of the Slim & Sweets comedy duo.
Irish actress