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The archives of the Presentation Congregation have a state of the art home in a building which dates back to 1779. This significant collection tells the story of the beginning of the order in 1775 and its expansion to five continents in the intervening years. They also have an interesting window into life in 18th-century Cork. Access to the archives is managed at the discretion of the Archivist, who can be contacted via [email protected]

You can find out more about the archives at https://nanonagleplace.ie/archive/

"The Almighty is all sufficient" - Nano Nagle

"It is a good sign of our future success that we should meet with crosses in the beginning" - Nano Nagle

"There is no greater happiness in the world than to be in Union" - Nano Nagle

"I am confident that the great God will direct you to what is most to His glory" - Nano Nagle

"We must leave it to the Almighty; He will do everything for the best in it" - Nano Nagle

"The Almighty makes use of the weakest means to bring about His works" - Nano Nagle

"I hope the increase of the charities you get, will enable you to daily add to the good you do" - Nano Nagle

"Love one another as you have hitherto done" - Nano Nagle

"The best works meet with the greatest crosses" - Nano Nagle

"God is all we need His divine hand will support us always" - Nano Nagle

"If I could be of any service in saving souls in any part of the globe I would willingly do all in my power" - Nano Nagle

"By degrees with the assistance of God we may do a great deal" - Nano Nagle

"You see it has pleased the Almighty to make me succeed" - Nano Nagle

"We do not know what is best for us, so we ought to accept what God sends us" - Nano Nagle

"Whoever we live with we must expect to have something to suffer as this world is not to be our paradise" - Nano Nagle

"Spend yourselves for the poor" - Nano Nagle

Keeping records and archives is a way of giving our testimony as followers of Jesus in Presentation religious life.

The Presentation Sisters Congregational Archives (PSCA) have a state of the art home at Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork ( https://nanonagleplace.ie/archive/ ) There is a wealth of information and history of the Congregation dating back to the very beginning of the order in 1775.

Our archives are those records, usually paper, generated and used by Presentation Sisters from the time of Nano Nagle and which need to be preserved indefinitely, because of their enduring value. They represent the collective memory of the Congregation since its foundation. – ‘Presentation Archives: Practical Care of our Future’ by Sr Sheila Kelly, Congregational Archivist 2002

In celebration of the Tercentenary year of the birth of Nano, on 8 June 2018, in an extra-ordinary act of generosity, the Ursuline Sisters in Ireland gifted seven Letters of Nano Nagle – that have been in their possession and carefully held in the Archives of the Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Co Cork – to the Presentation Sisters. Nano Nagle had a significant role in establishing the first community of Ursuline Sisters in Ireland in 1771. These letters are safely held in the Presentation Sisters Congregational Archives (PSCA).

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Digital Archives

To coincide with the Tercentenary year of the birth of Nano Nagle (2018), the Presentation Sisters sponsored a PhD research project with University College Dublin School of Education and UCD Digital Library, which included the digitisation of the entire collection of the Letters of Nano Nagle. This resulted in the first Irish digital reunification of globally-dispersed congregational archives. The digital collection comprises of seventeen manuscript letters; the letters are from Nano Nagle to Eleanor Fitzsimons (later Sr Angela Fitzsimons), an Irish religious novice in Paris, and from Nano Nagle to Teresa Mulally, educator of the poor, in Dublin.

You can access the digital collection at https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:153347

The Union of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a registered Charity. Charity Registered Number: 20002190

Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

“I am confident that the Great God will direct you to what is most His Glory.”

– Venerable Mother Nano Nagle

Nano Nagle founded the Sisters of the Presentation on Christmas Eve, 1775. She was born in 1718 at Ballygriffen, Ireland. When Nano was a little girl, there were no schools in Ireland for catholic children because of the Penal Laws. Nano was taught in her own home or attended the Hedge-school, schools taught by teachers disguised as beggars and laborers.

One winter morning as Nano was returning from a ball in France, she looked out of the carriage window and saw a group of poor people huddled together at the Church door waiting for it to be opened for early Mass. Her heart was touched by God’s grace. She soon realized how empty her own life was.

In 1747, at the age of 29, Nano returned to Ireland to begin her work of educating and caring for the most neglected and needy children. Hidden in small rooms, Nano taught her children to pray, read, write, and sew.

Lantern in hand at night, Nano would seek out the destitute poor and sick, providing them with love and sustenance. To her beloved poor, she was the “Lady of the Lantern.”

As years passed and Nano’s health began to fall, she feared that if anything happened to her, her schools would no longer be. She invited the Ursuline Sisters to Cork in 1771 to care for her schools. However the Ursulines could not visit the homes of the poor, as they were enclosed. Therefore, Nano decided to found a congregation of her own to teach and look after her beloved poor. And so the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary began on Christmas Eve, 1775.

Nano Nagle gave her soul to God on April 26, 1784. As she lay dying, she had two parting messages for her sisters:

“Love One Another” and “Spend yourself for the poor”

St. Colman’s Convent and Home

On June 6, 1881, a mission band of five Sisters of the Presentation founded St. Colman’s Home in Watervliet, New York. From its foundation, St. Colman’s Home has existed from the religious, physical, intellectual, moral, and social development of the child. It has been the haven of security for more than 8,000 little ones. Today, St. Colman’s stands as the focal point of a complete cycle of social services for the child in need, whether it be residential, day treatment, group or individual therapy, dealing with autism, psychological or psychiatric counseling, or learning disabilities.

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Keeping records and archives is a way of giving our testimony as followers of Jesus in Presentation religious life.

Something which has existed since the beginning, That we have heard, with our own eyes; That we have watched and touched with our hands: the Word who is life – this is our subject. That life was made visible: We saw it and we are giving our testimony… What we have seen and heard we are telling you So that you too may be in union with us.. We are writing this to you..

“Our archives are those records, usually paper, generated and used by Presentation Sisters from the time of Nano Nagle and which need to be preserved indefinitely, because of their enduring value. They represent the collective memory of the congregation since its foundation”.

– Presentation Archives: Practical care of our Future by Sr Sheila Kelly, Congregational Archivist 2002

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Notre Dame Club of Staten Island presents $7.9K to Catholic Missionary Sisters | It’s good news!

• Published: May. 07, 2024, 8:18 p.m.

The Notre Dame Club of Staten Island presented a check in the amount of $7,900 to The Missionary Sisters of St. Francis in Peekskill, N.Y. Sitting, from left, Sister Mary McCaffery and Sister Anne James Guerin, provincial superior. Standing, from left, Nancy and Joe Delaney, Tom Ventrudo, Peg Ventrudo and Sister Laura Morgan. (Courtesy/Joe Delaney) Staten Island Advance

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. —

Joseph Delaney of the Notre Dame Club of Staten Island presented a check for $7,900 to The Missionary Sisters of St. Francis, a religious order of Catholic nuns in Peekskill, N.Y.

The check was a donation through a partnership between the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Staten Island and an organization called Support Our Aging Religious (SOAR!).

Delaney explains that for years The University of Notre Dame Alumni Club on Staten Island has supported elderly and infirm nuns, brothers, and priests, living in retirement and struggling to make ends meet.

As an executive director of the club, Delaney made the donation along with club President Tom Ventrudo, who presented the congregation with the grant to purchase two motorized wheelchairs for sisters.

The University of Notre Dame Alumni Club of Staten Island has long been an active supporter and longstanding partner of SOAR! and together they were able to combine their financial resources to make the grant possible.

According to Delaney, “This contribution would not have been possible without a generous donation to our club by an anonymous Notre Dame alum, who had several elderly religious in his family. The alum asked his donation be given to the Notre Dame Club because of our club’s partnership with SOAR! and he knew the club would seek direction from SOAR! to give the donation to a religious congregation in need. SOAR! then identified the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart.”

Delaney noted that the donation represented the Notre Dame Club’s “5 Point Agenda for Life” program established five years ago to support Cardinal Timothy J. Dolan’s program of promoting life throughout the Archdiocese of New York.

The 5-Point Agenda for Life Program is a holistic approach by the club to support Life on Staten Island and across the Archdiocese of New York.

Programs supported by the 5-Point Agenda for Life include promoting and safeguarding the unborn through support of the Cross Road Foundation and Good Counsel Home, fighting food insecurity through the club’s annual Bread of Life Food Drive, and assisting children with cancer through supporting the Jewish Community Center’s Lucille and Jay Chazanoff Sunrise Day Camp.

Also, outreaching to Catholic Charities of Staten Island to assist the agency in addressing food insecurity and homelessness and assisting the migrant community, assisting people with disabilities and supporting the elderly on Staten Island and within Catholic religious communities.

In 2019, SOAR! awarded the Notre Dame Clubs of the Archdiocese of New York (Mid-Hudson Valley, New York City, and Staten Island) the organization’s prestigious Dorothy Day Award for “a broad spectrum of social, religious, and community activities that engage their members in the needs of the community.”

Each year the Staten Island club participates in the SOAR! Annual New York Awards Dinner to help raise funds for elderly and infirm religious. Previously, SOAR! has made donations to The Presentation Sisters, located on Staten Island.

And during the month of April, the Staten Island club was awarded by The University of Notre Dame its prestigious Outstanding Club Award for 2023, presented to the club at the university’s 57th Annual Leadership Conference on the campus of Notre Dame University.

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