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NUNS' CEMETERY IN MEMORY OF THOSE NUNS AND FRIENDS OF P.C.K. WHO REST HERE.
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In loving memory of Very Reverend Mother Xavier Murphy who died on November 5th.1939 Aged 73 years |
Mother Columba Moore Aged 92 years Died 1.2.71 R.I.P.
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Sr. Evangelist Coghlan Aged 90 years Died 24.11. 1978 R.I.P. |
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| In loving memory of Sr. Shanthi Born 17.8.1945 Died 14.9.1992 |
Sr. Catherine Kirley Aged 19 years Died 29.10.1929 |
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Sister M. Pauline Mc.Gnerney Aged 25 years Died 2nd. August 1935 R.I.P.
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| Mother M. Gertrude Lyons Aged 63 years Died 26.1.1933 R.I.P. |
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SrBernadette Mc. Grath Aged 66 years Died 22.9.1970 R.I.P. |
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Sister Bernadette Leahy Aged 35 years Died 30.4.1940 R.I.P.
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Sister Veronica Kearney Aged 49 Years Died 29.5.1924 R.I.P.
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In loving memory of
Robert Evatt Gibson
Died 3rd. Dec. 1961 Aged 68 years 2 months R.I.P. |
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| Sr. Lucy Tate Aged 78 years Died 7.2.1963 R.I.P. |
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| Mother M. Ignatius Moore Aged 91 years Died 11.1.1931 |
Sister Mary Juliana Reilly Aged 28 years Died 11.4.1939 R.I.P.
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| In loving memory of Patricia Delmege Who died September 30th. 1943 on whose soul sweet Jesus have mercy R.I.P. |
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Antony Isar Aged 82 yearsWho entered Eternity onJune 24th 196 I am the Ressurrection and the life, He who beleives in me, even if he die, shall live
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In Memoriam In cherished memory of Edwin James Kelly Sinclair House Kodaikanal Died 11th. March 1959 Aged 96 years 6months
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Mrs Doris Roze Aged 73 years Died 21.9.1933 R.I.P. |
In loving memory of my dear wife Minnie Kelly Sinclair House Kodaikanal who died on 27th. April 1951 Aged 77 years
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All photos taken May 2000 |
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| An extract from the book "Tomorrow I'll miss you," reminiscences by Pamela Wright . P.C.K. pupil 1933/1940 Page 62. The following Hallow E'en we were more daring. Among the trees in a quiet secluded part of the school lay the nuns' cemetery. One of the organisers dressed a tailors dummy in a nun's habit and laid it on a grave. Another took the rest of us girls and the ever present sister on a walk around the moonlit grounds passing skeletons, headless men, and hunchbacks who jumped out of the darkness, along the way. Eagerly but apprehensively we approached the cemetery. Fresh in our minds was the memory of a face, delicate as Dresden china, of a young nun who had died a few months before, and who had lain in state in our chapel for a day, while we prayed and sang hyms and sprinkled her with Holy Water, before we followed her funeral procession to Cemetery Hill where we laid her to rest. Supporting each other we nervously
approached the place where she had been buried. While the 'banshee' wailed,
the 'ghost' of the dead nun with rattling rosary beads and flapping veil,
slowly rose up from the grave, whereupon everyone, including the chaperone
nun, screamed almost to hysteria. It was an excellent drama but it could
have had tragic consequences for we had gone too far. The girl who had
lain the dummy on the grave and hid nervously in the dark to operate it
was hysterical, her fear argumented by our screams. We were given a right
royal dressing down but we had also compromised the the co-operative sister
who had procured for us the nuns habit and all the paraphernalia. She was
in serious trouble with her superior for endangering the well being of
the students. Hallow E'en came to an abrupt end when we were marched into
the refectory for a hot cup of cocoa, to calm us before we were sent to
bed.
My thanks to Pamela Wright for her permission to reproduce the extract from her book, and to Sister Margaret Powers for her help in obtaining the list of the deceased in the cemetery.
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