Sister Gregory Kirkus - Death

Death

She died, aged 96, on the feast-day of Saint Margaret Clitherow, like Ward and Kirkus, a Yorkshirewoman, whose relics are kept in the Bar Convent chapel. Shortly before her death, Sister Gregory had completed a biography of Mother Mary Ward's IBVM, which was to be published in 2009 to mark the 400th anniversary of the order.

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