Margaret Anna Cusack, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMargaret Anna Cusack
Irish Anglican nun, Roman Catholic nun
Date of Birth: 06-May-1832
Place of Birth: County Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Date of Death: 05-Jun-1899
Profession: writer, nun
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Margaret Anna Cusack
- Margaret Anna Cusack (born 6 May 1829 in a house at the corner of Mercer Street and York Street (now known as Cusack Corner), Dublin, Ireland – died 5 June 1899), also known as Sister Mary Francis Cusack and Mother Margaret, was first an Irish Anglican nun, then a Roman Catholic nun, then a religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of St.
- Joseph of Peace, and then an Anglican (or possibly a Methodist).
- 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 Famine of 1879 and helping to feed the poor. An independent and controversial figure, Cusack was a passionate Irish nationalist, often at odds with the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
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