Margaret Anna Cusack - Early Life

Early Life

Margaret Anna Cusack was born in Coolock, County Dublin, Ireland into an aristocratic family and was raised in the Church of Ireland. When Cusack was a teenager her parents separated and she went to live in Exeter with her grand-aunt, then on to Devon where she joined the Plymouth Brethren. At the age of 29 she was received into the Catholic Church and immediately joined the Poor Clares in Newry, County Down.

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