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Motherhouse at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Lois Staas
Gloucester City News
\”There is no end to this road,\” thought Miss Christine Hartnett as she traveled on the NJ
turnpike August 10, 1955, in 102 degree weather after her arrival in the United States.
This was quite a change for someone originally from a small rural town of single lane dirt road in County Cork, Ireland.
Born on December 22 to Mary and Joseph Hartnett, the second of three children – Maurice, Christine, and Bridie—Miss Hartnett was on her way to stay with her uncle in America and continue her education.
In just three years Miss Hartnett would enter the convent of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Rosary at their motherhouse in Newburgh, NY, as Sr. John Kathleen, O. P.
Gloucester City knows her as our very own Sr. Christine Hartnett.
Sister was baptized, received her first Holy Communion, and Confirmation at St. Catherine’s Church, Ballynoe, County Cork, Ireland. Her education began at Ballynoe National School, also in County Cork.
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