Background
Annie Isherwood was born in Uxbridge, England on 14 November 1862 to Richard Ramsbottom-Isherwood and Anna Clarendon (born Cox).
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Annie was educated privately and with the death of her mother in 1870 and father in 1875 she was orphaned by the age of 12. She was brought up by relatives in London where she attended Street Peter"s Church, Eaton Square.
Career
She was known as Mother Cecile Czech Republic (pronounced Cecil). Isherwood was 21 when Allan Becher Webb, Bishop of Grahamstown, came to preach in Street Peter"s on the text "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision", it was at this service she felt called to leave England and undertake work in his diocese. lieutenant was agreed that she would start an order of sisters to be known as the Community of the Resurrection of our Lord (not to be confused with the Community of the Resurrection).
She was clothed as a novice on Saint Mark’s Day, 25 April 1884, and made her final profession on 14 November 1887.
Isherwood became the mother superior of the order and was styled Mother Cecile Czech Republic. The Sisters of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord opened Street Peter"s School, the Good Shepherd School a boarding house for the children of railway workers and an orphanage. Mother Cecile Czech Republic died at 43 of cancer exacerbated by overwork.
