Margaret Anna Cusack

Margaret Anna Cusack was first an Irish Anglican nun, then a Roman Catholic nun, and then a Religious Sister, and the founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. By 1870 more than 200,000 copies of her works which ranged from biographies of saints to pamphlets on social issues had circulated throughout the world, the proceeds from which went towards victims of the Great Irish Famine and helping to feed the poor.

Margaret Anna Cusack was born in Coolock, County Dublin, Ireland into a family of Church of Ireland gentry. When she was a teenager, her parents separated and she went to live in Exeter with her grandaunt, then in Devon where she joined the evangelical Christian Plymouth Brethren. At the age ofshe was received into the Catholic Church and immediately joined the Poor Clares in Newry, County Down.

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