{"id":21015,"date":"2013-06-17T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/?page_id=21015"},"modified":"2021-01-21T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:05:58","slug":"francis-teresa-ball","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/francis-teresa-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Teresa Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n\n\t<h3>Frances Teresa Ball<\/h3>\n<p>The Loreto branch of the IBVM was introduced to Ireland in 1820 by Frances Teresa Ball. \u00a0Inspired by the call to &#8220;Seek first the kingdom of God&#8221;, she entered the Bar Convent in York and having completed her noviciate, returned to Dublin to found a school for the education of girls. \u00a0She named the first convent and school in Dublin &#8216;Loreto&#8217;. Other schools were founded from it \u00a0at the request of bishops from other parts of Ireland as well as further afield.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p6755-teresa-ball-188x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"Frances Teresa Ball\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"p6755-teresa-ball-188x300-1.jpg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tFrances Teresa Ball\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Loreto-Abbey-Rathfarnham-1.jpg\" alt=\"Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"Loreto-Abbey-Rathfarnham-1.jpg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tLoreto Abbey Rathfarnham\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/teresaballtomb.jpg\" alt=\"Teresa Ball's grave\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"teresaballtomb.jpg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tTeresa Ball&#039;s grave\n\t<p>All these schools were known as &#8216;Loreto&#8217;. \u00a0For this reason, we are known to this day by many as the &#8216;Loreto sisters&#8217;. By the time of her death, the missionary thrust of Loreto was well under way. \u00a0Following the vision of Mary Ward, the sisters provided education and care for many girls in areas of the greatest poverty and deprivation &#8211; in Manchester and also in Calcutta.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Teresa Ball The Loreto branch of the IBVM was<a href=\"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/francis-teresa-ball\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"Frances Teresa Ball The Loreto branch of the IBVM was introduced to Ireland in 1820 by Frances Teresa Ball. \u00a0Inspired by the call to &#8220;Seek first the kingdom of God&#8221;, she entered the Bar Convent in York and having completed her noviciate, returned to Dublin to found a school for the education of girls. \u00a0She named the first convent and..","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21015"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22286,"href":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21015\/revisions\/22286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibvm.org.uk\/new4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}