Names of the Good Shepherd Nuns who were at Mt. Magdala Christchurch, New Zealand in the 1940s. These nun looked after us little babies and children in their orphanage, as well as, looking after the Magdalene Laundry, which were also called the Magdaele Asylum. Mother Rock Mother Mechtilde Mother John Mother Benedict Mother john Eudes Mother Aiden Mother Francis Mother Augustine Mother Austin Mother Gertrude Mother Euphrasie (little) Mother Majella Mother Ignatius Mother Joseph Mother Archangels Mother Agnes Mother Rite Mother Frances Mother Mary of the Sacred Heart Mother Vincent Mother Loreto Mother Doeitheus Mother Madeleine Mother Catherine Mother Euphrasie (Big) Mother Kieran Mother Phillip Mother Subina Mother Antoni Mother France of Rome Each Sunday afternoon when we went for our walks over to the Mt. Magdala were the bad girls lived we passed their big kitchen where Mother Antoni worked. She would come out and give us cakes which she had just baked. She was a very tall nun and so sweet just like Mother Francis of Rome.
