1. Nano Nagle founded the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly known as the Presentation Sisters, now a worldwide Catholic institute of women religious.
15 Facts About Nano Nagle
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Nano Nagle was declared venerable in the Catholic Church on 31 October 2013 by Pope Francis.
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Nano Nagle lived during the period when the Catholic majority in Ireland were subject to the anti-Catholic Penal Laws.
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Nano Nagle was born in Ballygriffin, in the parish of Killavullen, County Cork, to Garrett and Ann Nagle.
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Nano Nagle was the eldest of six or seven children, the others being Mary, Ann, Catherine, Elizabeth, David, and Joseph.
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Nano Nagle was born in the Blackwater Valley in County Cork which possesses views of the distant Nano Nagle Mountains.
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However, when Nano Nagle's parents married, the family still owned considerable property at Ballygriffin, Killavullen.
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Nano Nagle is believed to have attended a local hedge school, like her cousin Edmund Burke, before she travelled to France to complete her education.
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At first alone, and later with the support of her family, particularly her uncle Joseph Nano Nagle who had used Protestantism to preserve the family's wealth, she established a network of Catholic schools in Cork.
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Nano Nagle described in a letter her ideas for education, and how she wanted the spiritual and temporal welfare of her pupils to be interwoven and to flow naturally together.
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In 1771, Nano Nagle sponsored the first Ursuline convent in Ireland, a community of four women in Cork city who were professed in Paris, together with a reverend mother.
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Nano Nagle resisted the local bishop when he expressed fears that the establishment of the convent might provoke a Protestant backlash.
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Nano Nagle inspired Edmund Ignatius Rice, the founder of the Christian Brothers, to bring education to the poor people.
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Nano Nagle Place, surrounding her original 1771 convent in Cork city, includes her tomb, museum, and archive.
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Nano Nagle was declared a Servant of God in 1994, and Venerable on 31 October 2013.