Grey Sister

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a member of a congregation of nuns founded in 1747 in Montreal, devoted to social service.

Quotations

1765

It is said 8 or 9 sick Persons in the Grey Sisters' Nunnery were burnt to death.

1823

We first called at the Convent of the Gray Sisters, containing a Mère Superieure and twenty four nuns.

1958

Placed in charge of the Hôpital Général in Montreal in 1747, Mother d'Youville founded the order of Grey Sisters or Grey Nuns.