Second Annual Report of the Ladies’ Association of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (1853)

Second Annual Report of the Ladies’ Association of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (1853)

1853

Ladies’ Association of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul

Second annual report of the Ladies’ Association of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul attached to the Metropolitan Parish of Dublin and instituted for the Spiritual and Temporal Relief of the Sick Poor (presented at Annual Meeting, 10 June 1853). The report describes statistics regarding membership numbers, donations, and visitations to the Sick Poor and attendance of the dying. Several case studies or testimonies are provided, detailing visitations of the Sick Poor. It notes an extension of parishes for the association in Dublin, with the addition of a branch in Cork. The report describes other accessory or accidental works of the association, including the ‘emissaries of heresy’, and approaching parents to send Catholic children to Catholic schools. It suggests that the distance of Catholic schools is often too great for a child to travel, and thus, they attend Protestant schools close by. It discusses a proposal to set up a Catholic ‘Infant School’ using the Anti-Proselytising Fund. The report discusses the establishment of St. Mary’s Industrial Institute, and the benefits of providing needlework employment for the poor women. The Council Management is listed. The report includes a financial statement of donations, subscriptions and expenditure of the association, and lists benefactors. In the appendix is a letter of solicitation for support, financial contributions, and membership, and an account of St. Mary’s Industrial Institute.

Ladies’ Association of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul

20 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin, Ireland

Relief to the Sick Poor

Membership

Administration

Education

Proselytism

Finance

Benefactors

Cork, Ireland

St. Mary’s Industrial Institute

Aylward, Margaret (1810-1889)

William Powell (68 Thomas Street, Dublin)

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Note: p.2 and p. 28 are blank pages, and were not digitised as part of this edition

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