OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 21 May 1914, Page 36

OBITUARY

REV. MOTHER BRIGID, PAHIATUA.

(From our Masterton correspondent.) Rev. Mother Brigid Desmond, of the Brigidine Convent, Pahiatua, passed aWay on Thursday, after a long illness, at the age of 53 years. The deceased religious was born at Bandon, County Cork, and entered the Brigidine Convent at Mountrath at the age of 21 years. In 1896 she came to Australia, and spent two years in Cooma (N.S.W.), before coming to blew Zealand, where she was associated with the foundation of the Order by the Very Rev. Dean McKenna, V.G., in Masterton in 1898. The late Rev. Mother spent seven years in Masterton, and went to Pahiatua with the establishment of the convent there in 1906, and was Superior for seven years. Three years ago the late Rev. Mother celebrated her silver jubilee. On that occasion she was the recipient of several handsome tokens of esteem from the congregation, and the pupils of the convent. She was beloved by all who knew her, and throughout her long illness bore her sufferings with Christian fortitude. The funeral took place at the Mangatainoka Cemetery on Friday afternoon, when the following clergy were present; Very Rev. Dean McKenna, V.G., and Rev. Father Guinane (Masterton), Rev. Father T. McKenna (Pahiatua), Rev. Father McManus (Palmerston North), Rev. Father Core (Foxton), Rev. Father Barclay (Wellington), Rev. Father Harnett (Opunake), Rev. Father Kinkead (Carterton), and Rev. Father Kennedy (Port Augusta). — R.l.P.