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and became a nun, taking the religious name Sister Mary Patrick. She was the daughter of Henry Owen Lewis, a Catholic landowner and MP. She married

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, a colonial governor. When he retired she worked on the

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of London magazines. After his 1913 death she contemplated religious life and in 1918 John Blowick persuaded her to help the priests of the Maynooth Mission to China (later the Missionary Society of St. Columban). In 1924 with Blowick and

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she co-founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, a female auxiliary to the priests. She served in China from 1926 to 1936, and thereafter headed promotional work in Ireland as superior general until 1946 and vicar general until 1952.

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