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- At the age of nine years, she was sent to school at the Bar Convent, York, England, conducted by the English Ladies of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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The Loreto Sisters arrived in Australia in 1875 in response to a request by the Bishop of Ballarat, Bishop O'Connell. The group from Ireland, led by Mother Gonzaga Barry, set up a convent in Ballarat, Victoria and their first school, Loreto College, Ballarat, was originally known as "Mary's Mount".
In 1642 she journeyed northward with her household where they established a community school in Hutton Rudby, the home of cousin Sir Thomas Gascoigne, and then travelled to stay with the Thwing family at Heworth, near York.
In 1609, Mary Ward founded one of the first groups of active religious women in the Church, the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known in Ireland and throughout the world as Loreto Sisters. Mary, an English woman was born in Yorkshire in 1585. She lived in an age of religious intolerance.
In the 19 th Century Teresa Ball brought Mary Ward’s vision to Ireland and in 1875 under the leadership of Gonzaga Barry the Loreto Sisters came to Australia to establish schools. Image above from the Painted Life of Mary Ward series.
Loreto House was established in 1842 in Kolkata, by the Sisters of Loreto belonging to the institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the oldest and the first Loreto institution to be established in India and was one of the few all-girls Catholic schools of that time.
Catechism and Geography in Loreto St. Mary’s Bengali School, which was one of two schools on the campus of Loreto Convent, Entally. St. Mary’s was run jointly by the Loreto Sisters and the Daughters of St. Anne, a diocesan congregation founded in answer to the situation and needs of the contemporary local Church.
Teresa Ball. Teresa Ball (1794-1861) brought Mary Ward’s Institute to Ireland. In 1822 she opened the first house in Rathfarnham and called it "Loreto House". The "Loreto" name was used for all foundations that came from Ireland and the Sisters were known as "Loreto Sisters".
