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Sr Mary Magdalen Laing

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Sr Mary Magdalen Laing

Birth
Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, USA
Death
16 Mar 1980 (aged 92)
Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Burial
Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Born Lydia Victoria Laing, daughter of Frederick Joseph Laing and Catherine A. Long.

Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, Monday, February 22, 1909: “TO ENTER NOVITIATE—A Young Cumberland Lady Becomes a sister of Mercy—A beautiful ceremony too place in the chapel at Mount St. Agnes College, in Baltimore, Friday afternoon when Miss Agnes L. Hyland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin W. Hyland, of Cockeysville, and Miss L. Victoria Laing, daughter of Mrs. Frederick Laing, of Cumberland, were received into the Order of the Sisters of Mercy and entered upon a two years’ novitiate preparatory to taking the final vows…Both young ladies were graduated from Mount St. Agnes. Miss Hyland received the degree of bachelor of arts in the class of 1906 and Miss Laing in 1907. Miss Hyland will be know in religion at Sister Mary Pius and Miss Laing as Sister Mary Magdalen. After the ceremony the young Sisters received the congratulations of their friends and relatives. In the sanctuary were Revs. John Ryan, Jno. S. Keating, James M. Connolly and John Campbell.”
Born Lydia Victoria Laing, daughter of Frederick Joseph Laing and Catherine A. Long.

Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, Monday, February 22, 1909: “TO ENTER NOVITIATE—A Young Cumberland Lady Becomes a sister of Mercy—A beautiful ceremony too place in the chapel at Mount St. Agnes College, in Baltimore, Friday afternoon when Miss Agnes L. Hyland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin W. Hyland, of Cockeysville, and Miss L. Victoria Laing, daughter of Mrs. Frederick Laing, of Cumberland, were received into the Order of the Sisters of Mercy and entered upon a two years’ novitiate preparatory to taking the final vows…Both young ladies were graduated from Mount St. Agnes. Miss Hyland received the degree of bachelor of arts in the class of 1906 and Miss Laing in 1907. Miss Hyland will be know in religion at Sister Mary Pius and Miss Laing as Sister Mary Magdalen. After the ceremony the young Sisters received the congratulations of their friends and relatives. In the sanctuary were Revs. John Ryan, Jno. S. Keating, James M. Connolly and John Campbell.”


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