<p>Sister Margaret O’Brien,osu New General Superior from Fethard</p><p>Sr. Margaret O'Brien O.S.U. photographed with her father, Pat O'Brien, from The Valley, Fethard. </p><p>Sr. Margaret O'Brien OSU, of the U.S. Province, is the eldest daughter of Pat O'Brien from The Valley, Fethard, and was recently elected General Superior at the recent General Chapter of the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk in Belgium on August 5, 2008. The Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk minister in India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Canada, United States and Guyana. John Cornelius Martin Lambertz, a holy priest of Tildonk, Belgium, founded the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk on 30 April, 1818. After 1900, new foundations were established in India (1903), Canada (1914), and the United States of America (1924). In 1935 four young Fethard girls, Paula Carey, Nuala O'Brien, Kitty McCarthy and Monica Kevin sailed from Cobh to join the Ursuline Order in New York. In 1995 all four happily celebrated sixty years in religious life. Sr. Vincent McCarthy died in 1999. The other three, Sr. Paula Carey, Sr. Philomena O'Brien and Sr. Monica Kevin are still based in New York with Sr. Margaret O'Brien.</p>
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