Hong Kong for nine years and president from 1979 to 1981. She served as editor of the Bulletin of the Hong Kong Medical Association, and a term as master of the Hong Kong branch of the Doctors' Guild of SS Luke, Cosmas, and Damien. Death and legacy Monaghan died from cancer on 28 November 1985 in Ruttonjee Sanatorium, and was buried Saint Michael's Catholic Cemetery, in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. Tuberculosis had been largely eradicated from Hong Kong by the time of her death. After her death the Sister Mary Aquinas Memorial Fund for ongoing study of tuberculosis was established. In 1990, the new Ruttonjee 650-bed general hospital opened with the Sister Mary Aquinas Museum on one of the floors. Monaghan was featured as part of an exhibition about Columban missionaries in EPIC Museum, Dublin in 2019. References 1919 births 1985 deaths People from County Galway 20th-century Irish nuns 20th-century Irish medical doctors Irish Roman Catholic missionaries Female Roman Catholic missionaries Irish expatriates in Hong Kong Roman Catholic medical missionaries