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Article: Heil Mary: Magdalen asylums and moral regulation in Ireland.
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- History of Education Review
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- July 1, 2006
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The Sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd always have the specific vocation to form a family which can welcome persons in difficulty or who desire to live, an upright and beautiful life after sinning, by offering them a place to live where peace and love prevail.
Pope John Paul II, 9 July 1996, on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Rose-Virginie (Maria Euphrasia) Pelletier, founder of the Good Shepherd Congregation. (1)
These places were the Irish gulags for women. When you went inside their doors you left behind your dignity, identity and humanity. We were locked up, had no outside contacts and got no wages, although ...