Catherine McAuley and the Tradition of Mercy

by Mary C. Sullivan and Mary C. Sullivan R.S.M.

Book Overview

Catherine McAuley was born into a wealthy Dublin family in 1778. By the time she reached adulthood, she had witnessed the death of both parents and experienced considerable personal poverty. She then worked for twenty years as a companion for an elderly couple and, upon their deaths, received an unexpected inheritance.

Driven by a deep faith and pragmatic sense of charity, she opened, in 1827, an institution for unemployed and impoverished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268008116
• ISBN13: 9780268008116
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"