Sr Maurus Tierney, friend to the poor and convicted

The
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Sydney
22 August 2004

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Sr Maurus Tierney, friend to the poor and convicted

By Catherine O’Carrigan RSC

Miss Ellen Tierney was of quite a mature age when she left Orange, where her father was a hotelkeeper, and entered the Sisters of Charity at Potts Point in 1919.

In her new secluded life, she bypassed the jazz era but came to life when the Great Depression hit the world in 1929.

In the narrow Tusculum Lane at the side of St Vincent’s convent and school, there flocked the sad by-products of the financial crash, business and professional men as well as drifters, who had not the wherewithal for a meal.

In their felt hats and their ties, their self-image could not save them from hunger.

They used to sit patiently on the narrow pathway until the convent doorway opened and some food appeared.

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