Sr Stanislaus Kennedy's funeral took place at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook, Dublin, on Friday. Photographs: Alan Betson
Sister Stanislaus Kennedy was a “powerhouse of good” and “a woman who was hope for the hopeless”, her funeral Mass heard on Friday.
Sr Stan, as she was known, died on Monday aged 86 after a short illness.
A member of the Religious Sisters of Charity and a long-time campaigner on homelessness and immigrants’ rights, she founded Focus Point (now Focus Ireland), the Immigrant Council of Ireland, Young Social Innovators and an ecumenical centre for meditation, The Sanctuary, in inner city Dublin.
The coffin of Sr Stanislaus Kennedy
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