Mother Suzanne Aubert

Also known as

  • Sister Mary Joseph

Profile

Worked as a nurse on the battlefields of the Crimean War in the 1850s. Suzanne was drawn to religious life, but her family was strongly opposed, so in 1860 she fled from France to New Zealand to follow her vocation. Entered the Sisters of Mercy in Auckland, New Zealand, and began work with the poor and outcast. Missionary in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. In 1883 she founded a mission in Jerusalem, New Zealand where she established food kitchens, arranged homes and care for orphans and abandoned children, fought for rights for women and the nativie Maori people, and developed a number of herbal remedies that could be compounded and used by the poor. Founded the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion in 1892 at Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand.

Born

Died

Venerated

  • if you have information relevant to the Cause of Mother Mary Joseph, contact
       Fra Maurice John Carmody, OFM
       Home of Compassion
       Island Bay
       Wellington 6002, NEW ZEALAND

Additional Information

MLA Citation

  • “Mother Suzanne Aubert”. People of the Faith. Saints.SQPN.com. 2 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/mother-suzanne-aubert/>
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