Sor isolina ferrer biography

Sor Isolina Ferré Aguayo (5 September 1914 – 3 August 2000) was a Puerto Rican Roman Catholic religious sister.
Sister María Isolina Ferré Aguayo, MSBT, was born on September 5, 1914 in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Sor Isolina Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican Roman Catholic religious sister.

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Sor Isolina Ferre Biography

Sor Isolina Ferre (September 5, 1914 - August 3, 2000) was the sister of Puerto Rico's former governor Luis A. Ferré and a very famous Catholic nun.

She was born in Ponce, a member of a rich family (the Ferré family fortune is estimated at 193 million dollars nowadays). However, she was inclined towards becoming a Christian servant, and chose to represent God among the people of the Earth instead. So she joined the Orden De Las Siervas Misioneras De La Santisima Trinidad (Order Of The Missionary Women Of The Holiest Trinity) in 1935.

An excellent student, Ferré graduated various universities in the United States, with grades in sociology and arts among other things. She travelled back and forth between Puerto Rico and the Eastern Coast of the states, and she absolutely loved trying to help the poor who lived in the Eastern coast.

After a stint as a member of New York's committee against poverty, to which she was named by then mayor John Lindsay, she decided in 1969 to set her permanent residence in Ponce, specifically in the

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Isolina Ferré

Roman Catholic nun from Puerto Rico

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ferré and the second or maternal family 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 September 1914 – 3 August 2000) was a Puerto Rican Roman Catholicreligious sister. Known as the "Mother Teresa of Puerto Rico", she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her humanitarian work.

Ferré Aguayo was born in Ponce to a wealthy family. She was one of six siblings, Jose, Carlos, Hernan, Rosario and Luis, Puerto Rico's former governor. When she was 21, Ferré traveled to the United States where she commenced her novitiate. After five years, she completed the solemn vows. As part of her religi

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FERRÉ AGUAYO, SOR ISOLINA (1914–2000)

Known as the Angel of the Playa de Ponce, Sor Isolina was born into a well-to-do Puerto Rican family in 1914. Her religious calling to forsake her comfortable life and work with the poor came to her at the age of fifteen, but she did not reveal her decision to the family until her twenty-first birthday. She joined the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity and in 1937 she professed as Sister Thomas Marie.
An accomplished religious leader, Sor Isolina, a name she recovered following Vatican II, joined the faculty of Blessed Trinity College in Philadelphia, and earned a master’s degree in criminology from Fordham University. An avowed community organizer, Sor Isolina created multi-service groups, worked with numerous grass-roots and government sponsored organizations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and helped the poor, at risk youth, and families to reach their potentials. Honored by numerous organizations for her humanitarian deeds, Sor Isolina received the Presidential M