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Mary FrancesFrances Mary Teresa Ball Frances Mary Teresa Ball Irish nun Frances Mary Teresa Ball, IBVM (9 January 1794 – 19 May 1861) was an Irish Catholic religious sister who founded the Irish branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Sisters of Loretto. Early life Frances Ball was born on 9 January 1794 in Dublin, Ireland to John and Mable Clare Bennet Ball; the youngest of six children. Her father was a wealthy silk weaver. Catholicism was still suppressed in Ireland at this time, although her brother Nicholas later became one of the first Catholic Irish judges. She was therefore sent to England at the age of nine to the Bar Convent in York, which… (Source: Wikipedia)
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