On the 27/01/2016, Mary Collins held a service on her mothers Angelina Collins death date for all the magdalene women who lay in st Finbars mass grave. Mary's mother spent twenty-seven years in at Finbars magdalene laundry. She was recommend a hysterectomy by the doctors but the nuns left her a further ten years without treatment and she died of cervical cancer due to neglect.
Mary had contacted the council regarding removing her mothers remains and was told the land the plot was on was own by the sisters, so she would have to obtain the permission from them. She had wrote endless letters and they have been ignored. The mass grave site that is meant to be under the church's care has not been look after and is also ignored like the women's existence was to them & still are even within after life as there mateance In place for them.
Mary then contact the sisters of charity before the event in hopes that they would like show some remorse for their actions and would like to help acknowledge every individual who lays within the mass grave. With help from the welcome house she sent a letter through the post, I also personally sent two emails through their website and got no response. I then went on Facebook and also sent another two through their Facebook page, there was no response.
On the day of the service Mary and one of her dearest friend Maureen, had approached the building where the nuns are. She asked again for them to acknowledge these women in any small way but this time in person, she asked for a bunch of flowers to lay from them on their behalf as they didn't wish to attend. They kept saying they knew nothing regarding it or nothing about the women, regarding the fact the many different forms we took to contact them in advance regarding it. Mary also contact the religious order by phone three times in advance. Mary recorded this whole discussion between three different individuals on day.
When mary approached the last lady she spoked with, she said we have no flowers, Mary said there are some there! The lady replies with "I would be killed if I digged them up"
In a environment where women was abused & drugged, a place where the nuns now use to accommodate their needs and after Mary explaining her mothers abuse in the laundry to her, on even the grounds they stood on. This is not just a tongue and cheek statement. She spoke clearly through out and then whispered it, you can hear it but you need to listen closely! Why would she feel as if it was a secret, why did she lower her tone for others not to hear. This really is the question? Which is simply answered! Look at history! Look at what they did to these women on these grounds and look at the lack of remorse! They haven't learned! As they certainly do not care.
They don't care about the 73 women that lay in a grave, within the land that they own and they have no plan and never did to to keep it maintained! They don't care that these women suffered wrongly and their is no acknowledgment of who they was! They wasn't the fallen magdalene women, They was strong mothers, sisters, aunts, who was targeted for being a women! The dead magdalene women should be acknowledge & these sites need to be treated with respect and as a part of irish history! Yes, it's a shameful one but it's part of it! The history the church printed on Ireland alone with the sate, like they ignored and forgot these women, they are trying to ignore the mass graves they own and their duty to remember these women!
St finbars mass grave should be a historical site alone with the other of magdalene mass graves throughout Ireland. Instead it's a cross with a list of females names on. It doesn't acknowledge the life's they was made to live. It is a shameful, disgusting part of Ireland history, but it is history! An it needs to be respected! Even more so when there are living victims like Mary who was having to feel forced to visit a neglected grave that brings back memories of the abuse she suffered from aged 2-18. Is it not time to start respecting these women and their families suffering!
Like they ignored the request for Mary to remove Angelina from this neglect mass grave without even a plaque to acknowledge who these women was. They ignored our attempt to try build a relationship with the religious order, they ignored their right to try rekindle the faith in their service. As a calthic I was I taught to repent for my sins, so why didn't those who taught me those teaches, did not practice them on the 27/01/2017 when they was given the opportunity to on many occasions by the victims & their families.
Still to 2017 their is something is severely wrong these religious orders who run the laundries and are still at these sites and when a young nun feels she would be killed for picking a flower for the women something says there is still something very wrong. Her tone if voice says she wanted to, but you can tell she is not allowed.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/Justice4AllMags/videos/1020252798075658/
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