Columban Sister Catherine Lillis presented with a special papal award
A five bedroom en-suite detached house with three reception rooms, kitchen, living room and three offices on its own grounds it is a 10-bed residential secondary treatment centre set up to help men in early recovery develop and maintain an abstinence-based lifestyle while improving quality of life. A centre for women is in the final stages of preparation while much needed therapy and support will soon be available for women.
Sr Catherine began her missionary life in Burma, now Myanmar, where she directed the Columban Sisters’ medical clinic in the town of Manbaw. When the military took over she went to Hong Kong and worked there in the Columban TB hospital. In the early 1980s she helped set ip a rehabilitation hospital in Egypt which treated soldiers left paralysed in the conflict between that country and Israel.
From Querrin, Kilkee, Co Clare, where both parents were teachers, Sr Catherine’e late brother Jimmy and her sister Sr Camillus were also Columban missionaries who spent their lives in the Philippines. At the weekend Sr Catherine was presented with the papal medal and parchment `Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice’ by Bishop of Meath Tom Deenihan at St Mary’s Church, Navan.
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