Mary Ward Research Paper

Mary Ward, who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters) was born in England on the 23 January 1585. She became one of the greatest English women of the seventeenth century, a courageous innovator, a mystic, a holy woman and an inspirational leader. Mary Ward passed away on the 30 January 1645 Heworth, United Kingdom. Throughout Mary Ward’s , she wanted to give active service to God and others. Thus began her extraordinary journey.

I believe Mary Ward should definitely become a saint. Mary Ward has been dead for a long period of time. She has also served God throughout her whole life, she is a servant of the Lord. Mary Ward has also showed many heroic virtues in her life.

. In 1605 Mary Ward embarked on her journey, when she arrived by boat in st Omer she decided to work at the poor clare convent. Not to long after arriving She realised that this was not the life she had anticipated and so after one year she left to establish an English-speaking Poor Clare convent.However, after a few months, Mary understood in a moment of extraordinary prayer, that she was not called to be a Poor Clare, yet she still believed that God was calling her to Religious Life. So after a few months in 1609 she …show more content…
In 1630 Mary was arrested and imprisoned in the Anger convent as a ‘heretic’. She was in prison from 7 February to 14 April and was close to death through her ill health. Mary Ward was imprisoned for being catholic. This notable event in mary Ward's life teaches us that we should always stay faithful and true to God, no matter what temptations we are faced with. It shows us that the temptations, that could break our faith to God, are nothing compared to the hardship and temptations that Mary Ward and her family faced. But yet she did not break, and neither should