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Pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland
- Venerable Honora Nagle (c. 1718 – 26 April 1784), known informally as Nano Nagle, was a pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland despite legal prohibitions. She founded the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM), commonly known as the Presentation Sisters, now a worldwide Catholic institute of women religious.
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Venerable Honora Nagle (c. 1718 – 26 April 1784), known informally as Nano Nagle, was a pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland despite legal prohibitions.
who is nano nagle? Nano (Honora) Nagle was born in 1718 in the townland of Ballygriffin, near the village of Killavullen, in the beautiful valley of the Blackwater in County Cork. Her parents, Ann and Garret Nagle, were relatively wealthy Catholic landowners.
Born to a wealthy Catholic family in 1718, Honora Nagle was given the pet name Nano by her father. The Nagle family home at Ballygriffin, near Mallow, was on the banks of the river Blackwater. Here Nano experienced an idyllic childhood with her younger siblings.
A collection of the surviving letters of Honora (Nano) Nagle (1718-1784), foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM). Nano Nagle brought the Ursuline congregation to Ireland, before founding the Presentations.
Honora Nagle (1718–1784), founder of the Presentation Order of Catholic women religious and pioneering leader in the reestablishment of both Catholic education and women's religious institutions in Ireland during the eighteenth century, was born in Ballygriffin, Co. Cork, into a prominent, landowning Catholic family.
Nov 1, 2013 · Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters in Ireland, has been declared Venerable by Pope Francis. It means she has passed the second of four steps to canonisation.
Nagle, Nano (Honora) (1718–84), nun, educator, and founder of the Presentation Order, was born 9 April 1718 at Ballygriffin near Mallow, Co. Cork, eldest among five daughters and two sons of Garret Nagle (d. 1746), landowner, and Ann Nagle (née Mathew), who was from Annfield, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
