Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours
The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours ( French Congrégation des Sœurs de Bon Secours , German Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours , bon secours = "good help") is a Roman Catholic women's order for nursing the sick .
history
The congregation was founded in Paris in 1824 . Twelve young sisters led by Sister Josephine Potel (1799–1826) lived in a community, visited poor sick and dying people at home and cared for them. The sisters went to the homes of people in need and, if the situation required, stayed there for longer periods of time, even if, as religious women, they risked public criticism at the time. Later branches were established in Ireland (1861), London (1870), the United States (1881), Peru (1966) and South Africa (2008).
In Ireland, the Sisters of Bon Secours established private hospitals in Cork in 1915 and in Tralee in 1921 . The order now runs one of the largest private clinic groups in Ireland.
The dead children in the home of Tuam
Until 1961 the congregation also worked at St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam , Ireland . A mass grave with around 800 children's corpses was discovered there in a disused sewage tank at the end of the 1980s , but no further investigation was carried out. The congregation pointed out that all the sisters of that time had already died. The Children's Home Graveyard Committee was founded in 2013 with the task of preserving the memory of these children by building a memorial.
Web links
- The Sisters of Bon Secours Ireland
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://bonsecours.us/history/our-foundation/
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23505430/josephine-potel
- ↑ Mary Elizabeth O'Brien: Spirituality in nursing: standing on holy ground. Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, Mass. u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7637-4648-3 , p. 46 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ http://bonsecours.org/?page_id=485
- ^ Donnacha Seán Lucey: The End of the Irish Poor Law? Welfare and healthcare reform in revolutionary and independent Ireland. Manchester University Press, Manchester 2015, p. 120; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Colm Keena: Order of nuns behind Tuam home runs private hospital group , The Irish Times , March 7, 2017
- ^ Children's mass grave in Ireland The Dark Secret of the Sisters of Bon Secours. Spiegel Online, accessed March 3, 2017 .
- ↑ HOME, Tuam. (PDF; 162 kB) The Children's Home Graveyard Committee, archived from the original on January 26, 2018 ; accessed on June 11, 2019 (original website no longer available).