Sisters Maeve O’Brien DC tells the story of ‘’The Tall Woman ‘’ and ‘’ The Mother of The Mothers in Labour ‘’ She writes
Dear Fam Vin Friends ,
Stories of the lives of two wonderful , rather unusual missionary Daughters of Charity have been written recently .
‘’The Tall Woman ‘’ presents the life of an English Sister, Gabriel Cubitt D.C. O.B. E . She spent the first fourteen years of her missionary life in China ,where she was imprisoned by the Japanese and then by the Chinese communists.
From there she escaped to Egypt for two years . For the next thirty -two years she was missioned to Ethiopia . The great love of her heart were the people with leprosy , whom she called the outcasts of the outcasts. She visited them weekly in a large cemetery in Addis Ababa , where they eeked out an existence . During the Great Famine she was missioned to Mekele in the North of Ethiopia where hundreds of people died in her arms . She lived through the horrors of the Ethiopian Revolution and the Civil war . She died aged ninety-two and is buried among her beloved poor in Mekele .
‘’ The Mother of The Mothers in Labour ‘’ gives a vivid description of The Great Famine in Ethiopia , followed by the Communist Revolution . Sr. Francoise Juramie ,whose life was often in danger , was able to minister to the mothers and babies who were very malnourished in very remote areas. Before she trained as a Daughter of Charity , she named her qualifications as teacher of ballet and gymnastics, and a parachutist. She had a heart on fire with love for those very poor people who lived and died in a very remote part of Ethiopia. Alitena was ten hours by mule into the mountains from the nearest town.
Both of these books have been published privately. Enquiries can be made to Sr. Maeve O’Brien at maeveobrien28@hotmail.com
Sr. Gabriel Cubitt
Sr. Françoise Juramie
Daughters of Charity
4 Koorong St
Marsfield 2122
Australia 22nd October 2013
Tags: Australia, Daughters of Charity
