Religious of the Virgin Mary - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 10 Oct 2021 23:59:52 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Religious of the Virgin Mary - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Kindness helps convent face grief as 11 nuns die of coronavirus https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/10/11/kindness-helps-convent-face-grief-as-11-nuns-die-of-coronavirus/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 06:55:36 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=141334 The Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM) congregation said Friday that Covid-19 claimed the life of another nun at their motherhouse compound in Quezon City. Mother Maria Corazon Agda, RVM Superior General, said that 11 members of the congregation have now died of the disease. "We may have our own version of 9/11 in our Read more

Kindness helps convent face grief as 11 nuns die of coronavirus... Read more]]> The Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM) congregation said Friday that Covid-19 claimed the life of another nun at their motherhouse compound in Quezon City.

Mother Maria Corazon Agda, RVM Superior General, said that 11 members of the congregation have now died of the disease.

"We may have our own version of 9/11 in our 337-year history— with 11 Sisters leaving us for the next life in a span of 14 days (from) September 13 to 26," Agda said in a statement.

Sixty-two nuns and 52 lay personnel have tested positive for Covid-19 in mid-September, forcing the facility to lockdown.

Those who contracted the disease were all from the St Joseph Home, a separate building inside the compound that houses the elderly and the infirm.

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Kindness helps convent face grief as 11 nuns die of coronavirus]]> 141334 Covid outbreak in Philippine convent kills nine nuns https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/09/27/covid-outbreak-in-philippine-convent-kills-nine-nuns/ Mon, 27 Sep 2021 06:53:52 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=140841 Nine nuns have died while several others are in critical condition after a Covid-19 outbreak last week struck down 62 sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary, the biggest female congregation in the Philippines. The dead nuns, aged 80 to 90, died due to a lack of vaccination, the congregation said on Sept. 23. Read more

Covid outbreak in Philippine convent kills nine nuns... Read more]]> Nine nuns have died while several others are in critical condition after a Covid-19 outbreak last week struck down 62 sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary, the biggest female congregation in the Philippines.

The dead nuns, aged 80 to 90, died due to a lack of vaccination, the congregation said on Sept. 23.

"They did not receive their vaccines because their appointments were canceled. They were in grave danger because of their age," Sister Maria Anicia Co told Catholic-run Radio Veritas.

Sister Co said not everyone in the congregation received their anti-Covid jabs because several nuns were bedridden and could not get to a vaccine station.

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