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Nazareth House Nuns
Nazareth House
The Nazareth House order of nuns were and still are called
"The Little Sisters of The Poor."
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These are some of the nuns names I remember when I first went to Nazareth House and where they worked: = also the underlined nuns worked at both Nazareth House and St. Josephs Boys Home, that I know of.
Nazareth House Christchurch New Zealand.
Sister Veronica
Sister Teresa Cayline
Sister Charles
Sister Blandina
Sister Michael Uresula
Sister Theresa Anthony
Sister Stanislas
Sister Thecla
Sister Felicity
Sister Bernadette
Sister Bernadine
Sister Bride
Sister Gabriel
Sister Simeon
Sister Whillamina
Sister Lucilla
Mother Pascal
Mother Rose
Sister Bernard Mary This nun has been taken to Court for sexual abusing the girls
Nazareth House nuns at St Josephs Boys Home.
Mother Adrian
Sister Peter
Sister Ildephonsus
Sister Gertrude
Sister Stanislas
Sister Thedeus
Sister Muir
Sister Joseph Kevin
Sister Lucilla
Sister De Monfett
Behind the Gothic facade of
Nazareth House,
New Zealand
were the impressive stairways,
long corridors,
former classrooms,
dozens of dormitories.
The first three stages of construction
was completed in 1908
and used by the Sisters of Nazareth
as an orphanage
for unwanted parent less babies
and children
A refuge for homeless people,
the elderly,
ladies and men.
Much of the interior was spartan
and sunless
and belied the lively facade
which faced
Brougham Street.
Long ago declared impracticable
and beyond maintenance
as a home
for the elderly people
and children.
The building is now being demolished.
Most of the building's materials,
including the bricks, slats, stones, ironwork
and interior fittings,
are being salvaged by demolishers
for sale
and also some to be used for the new
Nazareth House
which will be used for the elderly
Men and women
also for the
retired priest and nuns.
It is also used for a refuge
for the priest and nuns
who sexual abused and abused
children who were living in their care
years ago.
The new building was completed in 1987
and is at the rear of the
Brougham Street section.
The Chapel, at the west end of
the old building,
is being retained
and it still looks the same as above.
The pictures of the basins and the dormitories
were on the 2nd floor
and you do not need to look hard
to see
that not one toy or doll
is on our beds.
It is because we had none.
No little Teddy to hug at night
to ease my pain.
No pretty doll to dress up
or to kiss her good night.
No motherly love to put me to bed
and talk me to sleep.
No kind words said to me at night time
to show they cared.
No warm hand for me to hold
to show me the way.
No love was there ever in Nazareth House
because the nuns did not care
for the little girl
who did not know how to love
and no one cared.
Copyright@ 2006-2010 Ann Thompson
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