Oral History: Sr. Mary Agnes Carey

Oral History: Sr. Mary Agnes Carey

Sister Mary Agnes Carey

An oral history of Sister Mary Agnes Carey, a Sister of Charity of Seton Hill from 1934 until 1993. The interview was conducted by Sister Mary Noel Kernan on April 23, April 24, and May 5, 1987.

Sister Mary Agnes Carey - religious name of Sister Thomas Aquinas - was born on January 18, 1916 and entered the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill in September of 1934. She received a bachelor's degree in Latin from Seton Hill College in 1940, a master's degree in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1956, and a doctorate from the University of Madrid in 1958. She was part of the first group of Sisters sent to Korea in 1960. Prior to that she taught at SS. Peter & Paul in Arizona and at St. Luke's in Carnegie. She was also part of the Spanish department at Seton Hill College. She was Principal of St. Joseph in Kang Tjin, Korea, from 1960-1971. Sister Mary Agnes died on October 12, 1993.

Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill

Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill

Archives of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill

1987-04-23

1987-04-24

1987-05-05

All rights to this recording belong to the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill, Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

All rights belong to the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill, Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Audio cassette tape

English

Oral history

OH-84

Gwangju

Kwangju-si (Chŏlla-namdo, Korea)

1916-1987

Sr. Mary Noel Kernan

Sr. Mary Agnes Carey

Audio cassette tape

96kHz