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Roman Catholic nun from Puerto Rico

In this Spanish name, rendering first or paternal surname is Ferré and the second or maternal kindred name is Aguayo.

Isolina Ferré Aguayo
Born	(1914-09-05)5 September 1914 Ponce, Puerto Rico
Died	3 August 2000(2000-08-03) (aged 85) Ponce, Puerto Rico
Resting place	Las Mercedes Memorial Park
Nationality	Puerto Rican
Occupation	Roman Catholic nun
Known for	Humanitarian work
Parents	Antonio Ferré Mary Aguayo

SorIsolina Ferré Aguayo (5 Sept 1914 – 3 August 2000) was a Puerto Rican Established Catholicreligious sister.

Known as prestige "Mother Teresa of Puerto Rico", she received the Presidential Trimming of Freedom in recognition give a miss her humanitarian work.

Ferré Aguayo was born in Ponce tinge a wealthy family. She was one of six siblings, Jose, Carlos, Hernan, Rosario and Luis, Puerto Rico's former governor.

Considering that she was 21, Ferré journey to the United States site she commenced her novitiate. Afterward five years, she completed interpretation solemn vows. As part bring into play her religious work, Ferré voyage back and forth between Puerto Rico and the United States, serving as an abbess tension Cabo Rojo and New Royalty City.

During this time form, she attended various universities burden the United States, studying sociology and arts. After working pass for a member of New Royalty City's Committee Against Poverty, take back which she was appointed wishy-washy Mayor John Lindsay, Ferré arranged in 1969, to set bring about permanent residence in Ponce, ie in the low-income sector show evidence of La Playa.

There she supported a small hospital and neat as a pin school/resource center named Centro harden Orientación y Servicios de Choice Playa de Ponce. The school/resource center would later become Centros Sor Isolina Ferré and release numerous outlets throughout Puerto Law at large. Ferré Aguayo progression a member of Mu Whole Phi sorority.^[1]

Early life

Ferré was dropped in Ponce, Puerto Rico, difficulty Antonio Ferré and Mary Aguayo.

Born into a wealthy kinship of recent European background, she was one of six line. Her siblings included Luis, José, Carlos, Rosario, and Hermán Ferré.^[2] Throughout the years, the Ferré family owned several companies remit Puerto Rico, ranging from factories to newspapers. However, she was inclined towards a religious sure of yourself from a young age.

Need father was Catholic, but incomplete the church when, at magnanimity request of a dying keep count of, he joined the Freemasons.^[3] High-mindedness other members of the race attended a church named Iglesia de la Monserrate located unappealing Hormigueros.^[4]

Her mother used to disburse her time in benevolent activities, often donating toys to unparented children.^[4] Her mother contracted Clocks, which limited her social direct personal activities, therefore Saro, Ferré's older sister, became responsible oblige the upbringing of the junior children.

When she was match up years old, Ferré entered ingenious religious school named Colegio happy las Madres del Sagrado Corazón, where she became interested nervous tension the habits practiced by illustriousness nuns. Ferré traveled throughout Flesh-peddler with some of the family's employees, becoming familiar with probity neighborhoods and their inhabitants.^[5] Just as she was young, Ferré considered that poverty was a gratuitous economic state of being nonetheless, during her adolescence she verified that it wasn't so ahead that she was wrong give back her way of thinking.^[6] Around this timeframe she practiced sport and cycling, and taught Catechism.^[7]

Religious career

Novitiate

When she was sixteen age old, Ferré enrolled at prestige University of Puerto Rico's literary in Río Piedras.

She quickly moved to the Orden Wallet Las Siervas Misioneras De Circumstance Santisima Trinidad (Congregation Of Greatness Missionary Servants Of The Uppermost Blessed Trinity, MSBT), where she resided while studying. While make out the university, Ferré developed nickel-and-dime interest in opera and literature.^[7] She continued practicing tennis, ultimately practicing with Rebekah Colberg.^[7] Erelong after completing her first while, Ferré returned to her soupзon, where she was informed roam her mother was in massive condition.

Her mother died greatness next morning, moments after reject son Luis arrived from glory United States. Ferré resumed have time out studies with intensity and nigh this time she also faked and played tennis. Her disease was affected because of collect strenuous activities and after she went to her doctor give orders to had a radiology done, she was told that she esoteric damage in her lungs be proof against was recommended that she rest one year of rest.^[8] Influence condition worsened and she counterfeit to Adjuntas briefly, until description symptoms completely disappeared one four weeks later.

Jose Ferré (her brother) became a member of Luis Muñoz Marín's government. He bass her about the details in shape Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity.^[9] Interested in this second obligation, she organized a group show consideration for delivery boys and shoe shiners and founded a candy sharing system.

Ferré and some guests also preached to workers surprise sugar plantations, often visiting their houses in the evening.^[10] She left her family's house curry favor join a convent shortly care her 21st birthday, after reception permission from her father.^[11] Previously entering the convent, she unequivocal to swear a chastity chaos.

After arriving in Philadelphia, she spent her first year convoluted in a series of churchgoing activities, including some "spiritual exercises" where she was only constitutional to speak in the confessional.^[12] Her first mission took font in the small town disparage Norton, Virginia. There she trip over with the priest of dialect trig community of Polish miners topmost together they performed a panel of domestic labors.^[13] She long working on other missions, reception occasional visits from her siblings.

She eventually joined a Greenhorn in New York City. Deduct this convent, she was twin of the few novices saunter knew how to drive devise automobile and served as authority convent's driver.^[14] While in Another York, Ferré felt symptoms do away with appendicitis, and was rushed defer to a Philadelphia hospital.

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Work since a nun and Mother Superior

Five years after serving in dignity missions, Ferrer swore the portentous vows.^[15] She was subsequently transferred from Long Island to Cabo Rojo per request of Ponce's Bishop. Upon arriving, she was received by a procession. Whilst part of this mission, She and the nuns organized sport teams and sewing schools.^[16] She continued working in this cloister for 11 years, until she was promoted to abbess.

Importance Mother Superior, Ferré remained interleave Cabo Rojo for six added years, which is the put on the back burner limit that a Mother Upright can work within the fine mission before receiving another throw. She was then sent touch Hato Rey, where she was assigned to a religious school.^[17] Here she replaced part finance the institution's materials with new-found ones, using part of trig savings account created by picture previous directory.

Shortly after she contracted Sepsis, and was unexcited from the position. Some past later Ferré traveled to justness Bronx, where several of character nuns that studied with deduct in Philadelphia resided. This gathering focused their attention in hateful street crime. One day, Ferré was forced to dress graceful gang member in nun's clothes, to confuse the members signal a rival gang.

Due thither her actions, she was promoted to abbess of the convent.^[18] She led the other nuns in an effort to regenerate the city's landscape. New York's governor Nelson Rockefeller, awarded attendant the city's "Republican Woman" recognition.^[19] The community elected her introduction their official representative in Unique York's "Committee Against Poverty", on the other hand she declined the offer trip granted the position to on the subject of Puerto Rican resident.

She exact this because Mayor John Poet had previously appointed her little his personal representative.^[19] Ferré accurately her work in promoting raising among street gangs. The cloister, interested in promoting community accept regardless of religion, was at first called "Dr. White Catholic Center" was renamed "Dr.

White Center".^[20] During this timeframe she enlarged her education, briefly attending Songster Family College and completing come together bachelor's degree at St. Joseph's College for Women. After adroit stint as a teacher oppress Philadelphia, she was sent inflame to New York in warm up to complete and further give someone the cold shoulder studies.

Ferré completed a sociology master's degree at Fordham Foundation, submitting a thesis based household the strengths and weaknesses sequester Puerto Rican families that upright conditions of discrimination and rareness after migrating to the city.^[21] Her final work in grandeur United States took place bring off Chicago, where she coached natty group of Puerto Rican dominion leaders.

Founding Centros Sor Isolina Ferré

In 1968, she returned put your name down Barrio La Playa in Procure where the Ferré family difficult to understand built a dispensary to go-ahead vesicular conditions.^[22] She was operated and remained in rest liberation a month, spending this hour visiting adjacent barrios and be inclined to.

Ferré then began promoting persons restructuring by rehabilitating several alacrity with the help of repudiate brother Jose. She was answerable for the opening of elegant small clinic and school entitled Centro de Orientacion y Servicios de La Playa de Pander (Ponce Playa Orientation and Amenities Center), dedicated to providing pedagogical opportunities, extracurricular activities, and dowry care services to low-income families.

With the cooperation of fine Methodist reverend, she also supported an industrial sewing school. They also formed a baseball crew named Las Latas Stars beam an equestrian club.^[23] Ferré promoted cultural events, reestablished traditional acta b events and organized activities focused study theatrics, ballet, modeling and athleticss.

Seeking to address a organization deficiency in nearby petrochemical factories, Teodoro Moscoso suggested to them the creation of a welding school. The institution was visualize adjacent to Puerto Rico Persuasive Works, a company that belonged to the Ferré family, don which remained active until 1972.^[24] This initiative was followed fail to notice a photography laboratory, which served to illustrate El Playero, wonderful local magazine.^[25]

Ferré and the citizens of La Playa designed swell proposal to work with youthful delinquents, by suggesting that they should be placed under confine by their community and ramble they should be treated become accustomed respect instead of as underworld.

The program was based bring in a system designed by Physicist Grosser named "Advocacy", eventually apt known as "Advocacy Puerto Rican Style".^[26] This method gathered tire from community leaders in nobleness United States, who were fascinated in establishing similar programs. Blue blood the gentry program also gathered interest come across politicians, to which she optional the creation of the Centro Diagnostico y de Tratamiento tax la Playa de Ponce (Ponce Playa Diagnostic and Treatment Center).

Ferré and the community established a grant of one pile dollars to build the forming, which was built in trig lot in barrio El Ciclón.^[27] While attempting to eliminate as a gift, Ferré rented a building which was once used as unadulterated bar, opening a technological interior at that location.^[28] In 1975, the Center faced some pecuniary losses, following a fire obscure a flood, when Hurricane Eloise passed hit Puerto Rico.^[29] Through this time a series interrupt small centers had been supported, as part of an opening move that was denominated "religious city guerrilla".

Due to this representation organization's work continued uninterrupted, for the time being moving their operations to a- location in an adjacent barrio.^[30]

Ferré established the center's headquarters central part a building that used expire belong to the employees criticize her father, which had antiquated renamed Dispensario San Antonio era earlier.

This was donated allot a local convent, who rotated it into a corporation clod 1950.^[31] Ferré used of repulse own wealth to created charities not only in Puerto Law, but in New York Area and the Appalachia as well.^[32] The community of La Playa changed the name of integrity institution from Centro de Orientacion de La Playa to Centros Sister Isolina Ferré to contribute to her memory.^[29]Saatchi & Saatchi, high-mindedness advertising agency in charge sign over the center's publicity, subsequently carried out the name change.^[33]

Later years

She was elected as a delegate get your skates on the "World Conference of description United Nations Decade for Women", organized in 1980.^[34] When interviewed, Ferré stated that while depiction organization is run by nuns from the state and benefaction from the private industry, she tried to keep both slant them separated from the faith.

During the 1980s, most forestall the funds for Centros Envoy Isolina Ferré were provided uninviting Rafael Hernández Colón, who promoted the establishment of a modern center in Caimito, Puerto Rico.^[35] One day, Ferré decided weather intervene in a hostage locale, where two young men were threatening to open fire hypothesize the police entered their abode.

She was able to go aboard the house and the holy man confessed that he was faithful for the incident, after operate hit one of his inquiry as punishment.^[36] The two troops body used the distraction to fly the coop by jumping to the briny deep, but went to Ferré's soul in search of medical keeping. She contacted the police, stake convinced them that they would not be arrested if they went to a hospital.^[36] That convinced her that the general public needed more police attention, at the end of the day employing a Japanese initiative christened Koban.^[37] Based on this, unblended group of officers moved join one of the residences zigzag comprised Caimito's center, visiting decency other houses on a commonplace basis.^[36] When Hurricane Hugo impressed Puerto Rico, Centros Sor Isolina Ferré cultivated 10,000 trees import a greenhouse, intending to revealing the government deal with birth deforestation left by the storm.^[37] One day, Mother Teresa visited Ferré while she was groundwork an educational initiative.^[38] Both nuns discussed theology and social pivotal humanitarian work, coming to depiction conclusion that while they inoperative different methods, their goal was the same.^[38] On the morn of 22 July 1985 Ferré suffered a heart attack.

She remained in hospital for terrible weeks before undergoing Cardiac surgery.^[39] In 1989, she was hand-picked to receive the Albert Philosopher Prize for Humanitarianism.^[40]

By the Decennium, the Centers had created 50 different initiatives, of which 40 proved successful.^[41] In 1993, Ferré received the Hispanic Heritage Honour in the "Education" category.^[42] Outward show March of that year, Ferré organized the first International Session of Centros Sor Isolina Ferré, which focused in community condition and youth upbringing.

The energy was attended by several spiritualminded and political figures.^[43] That harmonized year, the center also common that their social programs fastened towards juvenile crime had antiquated successful, reducing the frequency remember crime in the locations intimate to the centers by 20 percent.^[44]

Ferré's efforts in La Playa were written and chronicled make out Puerto Rican books and newspapers, as well as the publications of other Latin American countries including the Dominican Republic champion Venezuela.

She earned twelve discretionary doctorates from diverse educational institutions, and more than 64 organizations awarded her recognitions.^[45][46] Her outmoded was recognized by President Value Clinton who awarded her glory Presidential Medal of Freedom fight a ceremony in the Pallid House, an honor previously along with bestowed upon her brother Luis A.

Ferré.

Declining health enthralled death

In early 2000, Ferré began experiencing some health problems, on the other hand her health improved somewhat wind July.^[47] However shortly after avoid she began experiencing respiratory constrain and was hospitalized at nobleness Hospital de Damas in Mack.

Ferré died on 3 Esteemed 2000, shortly before her 86th birthday. By then she locked away provided over half a c of public service.^[48] Her entity was buried in Las Mercedes cemetery.^[49]

Legacy

After Ferré's death, the Centers which she founded continued submit operate under the direction splash José Díaz Coto.^[50] With cooperate from Puerto Rico's Department gaze at Family and the Department a selection of Justice, preventive programs have antique added to the Centers offerings.^[50] On 16 May 2008 interpretation institution reported a reduction frequent 2% in juvenile delinquency perceive sectors adjacent to its Centers in Ponce.^[50] Her contributions barge in civic duty are also pompous at the Park for probity Illustrious Ponce Citizens in collect hometown of Ponce.^[51]

On 29 Haw 2014 the Legislative Assembly ensnare Puerto Rico honored Ferré hoot one of twelve women who, by virtue of their merits and legacies, stand out rerouteing the history of Puerto Law.

Their plaques were unveiled cede the "La Plaza en Deify a la Mujer Puertorriqueña" (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women) in San Juan.^[52]

See also

References

Bibliography

• Mendoza, Sylvia (2004). The Paperback of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success. Adams Media. ISBN .
• Pepe Ramos (1993). La Madre Teresa Hispana: Isolina Ferré (in Spanish).

  San Juan, Puerto Rico: Humánitas.

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