The founder was called a Confessor of the Faith by Pope Pius IX, because of the imprisonment of six months she endured.
She was convicted of contempt of court, but acquitted of a charge of kidnapping, after having refused to produce and return an abandoned child to its mother.
[2] The congregation is especially active in the Archdiocese of Dublin, the residence of the superior general being at Glasnevin, where the sisters conducted a boarding-school for young women.
Today the order works in Ireland, United States of America, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and South Sudan.
[4] The Holy Faith sisters in collaboration with the Saint Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions (Kiltegan Fathers), in 2013, worked to set up a primary school in Riwoto, South Sudan.