Ferre, Sister M. Isolina

Ferre, Sister M. Isolina
▪ 2001

      Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun (b. 1914, Ponce, Puerto Rico—d. Aug. 3, 2000, Ponce), used her family's influence as wealthy owners of two leading Puerto Rican newspapers as well as their political power to establish charitable clinics, youth centres, and educational and empowerment establishments in Puerto Rico, New York City, and the Appalachia area in the eastern U.S. Ferré took her vows in 1935 and joined the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity. Armed with training in sociology from Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y., and prepared to draw on her Puerto Rican heritage, Ferré successfully mediated wars in the Bronx between feuding Puerto Rican gangs. Her role as a peacemaker and as a crusader for the impoverished earned Ferré numerous awards, including the 1989 Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and the 1999 U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.

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