Catholic Emancipation Act 1829
What did the Act grant Catholics?
Civil Rights/Freedom of Religion
What hospital did Edmund along with the Sisters visit when he went to Dublin?
St. Vincent’s Hospital
What year did Edmund call a meeting for all brothers regarding the act?
1829
The fathers of his students were victims of what?
Alcoholism
For a short period of time, Edmund Rice suffered what mental illness
Depression
The Brothers submitted a protest stating they were laymen and that their Superior was who?
Edmund Rice
Who did Edmund write two letters to?
Freer Guilliame
When did Rice and the Brothers finish building the North Monastery in Cork?
1816
What year was the school reopened to boys after the epidemic?
1818
How many brothers came to the Mount Sion for the meeting about the Catholic Emancipation?
30 Brothers
The Act banned Catholic men from joining what?
Name two places frequently visited by Edmund Rice and the Sisters?
Jails and Primitive Hospitals
What country did Edmund Rice become a widely respected leader?
Ireland
How many boys enrolled into their newest school
About 60
At the time, what legal right didn’t the Brothers have?
Legal right to exist
In January 1829, Rice called a meeting with who to decide their stance on the Act?
The Brothers
What group did Edmund and the brothers have a close bond with?
Mary Aikenhead’s Sisters
What year did Rice resigned?
1829
Besides being a businessman and principal, what else was Edmund rice called?
Social Worker
What kind of addiction did Edmund help Poll Cathy, a woman who lived in Waterford, with?
Alcolohism
In April 1829, Edmund Rice and 30 Brothers arrived where to discuss the Act?
Mount Sion
What group/groups are known as the “Walking Nuns”?
Irish Sisters of Charity/The Sisters of Mercy
In what year was the first book about Edmund Rice printed?
1863
In 1816, the building of North Monastery in Cork was finished, what was its temporary use?
Emergency ward
What was Edmund Rice’s maxim?
“Providence before inheritance”