1823 - 1896
Sister Irene American
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| First Name |
Sister
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| Last Name |
Irene
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1822
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| Died |
1896
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| Buried |
Sisters' Cemetery, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, New York 40°54′48″N 73°54′25″W / 40.913465°N 73.906971°W / 40.913465; -73.906971
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Roman Catholic religious sister, orphanage director, teacher
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Sister Irene (born Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon; May 12, 1823 – August 14, 1896) was an American nun who founded the New York Foundling Hospital in 1869, at a time when abandoned infants were routinely sent to almshouses with the sick and insane. The first refuge was in a brownstone on E.12th St. in Manhattan, where babies could be left anonymously in a receiving crib with no questions asked. The practice was an echo of the medieval foundling wheel and an early example of modern "safe haven" practices.
