The Mass of Christian Burial for Isidor Macho will be celebrated at 10:30 am. on Saturday August 5, 2023, at St. Hubert’s Catholic Church in Bluegrass with Father Aaron Kuhn as celebrant.
The legal status of illegitimacy survived until 1987.
The Commission, which published its almost 3,000 page report on Tuesday last, was established because of concerns that had been raised. The report notes that mother and baby homes did not originate in Ireland and the earliest mother and baby homes were not established by Catholic religious orders.
There is a long history of charitable institutions catering for abandoned, or neglected children, and charities that supported widows, but unmarried mothers were not a popular cause for benefactors. The origins of mother and baby homes in Britain, the USA and Australia can be traced to Magdalen Asylums and other institutions that were established. By the end of the nineteenth century every major city in Britain and the United States had several such institutions.