Autor: Thomas M. Meine

Agnes Row was born in Australia, Campbell”s Creek, Victoria, in the year 1866, as the second youngest of five surviving children. When her mother died at an early age, the eldest sister took responsibility over her younger siblings, but also she died very soon. In 1896 she became a deaconess, Sister Agnes, parting from her surname forever. She belonged to an Anglican order of women, the CHN – Community of the Holy Name, looking after slum-dwellers, providing medical care, refuges for women, education and Christianity. Put in charge of St George”s Mission Hall, she found her purpose in looking after the needy boys. When she read her stories to them, she kept a hall full of them interested and excited; they were eating out of her hand, everyone felt that nothing could go wrong with her around and whatever she said was fair and right, becoming a guide for their future life. Other assignments followed, like the Superintendent of the Diocesan Mission to the Streets and Lanes in Melbourne or Superintendent of St Mark”s Mothers” Union. Sister Agnes died in the year 1930.