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	About Catherine McAuley
		On September 24, 1827, Catherine McAuley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, first opened the doors of her home to the public on Baggot Street in Dublin, Ireland.
		Catherine's innovative approach to housing and educating young women and children from the slums was considered shocking, especially since it brought the poor, the sick and the uneducated into an affluent neighborhood.
		As Catherine’s passion for the poor took root in the hearts of her companions, the charism of Mercy spread rapidly across Ireland and England.
	www.mcauleyimages.com /catherine_mcauley.htm (553 words)

	Catherine McAuley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catherine McAuley as depicted on the £5 note of Series C Banknotes of Ireland.
		Catherine McAuley was born in Ireland in September, 1778.
		In 1978, the cause for the beatification of the Servant of God Catherine McAuley was opened by Pope Paul VI, and in 1990, upon recognition of her heroic virtues, Pope John Paul II declared her Venerable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catherine_McAuley (446 words)

	Catherine McAuley
		Catherine’s father died when she was only five years old, and it was during this difficult time that she held tight to her Catholic heritage that her father passed down to her.
		Catherine is described to have “felt life;” she “felt the joy of it and danced in it” (Regan).
		Catherine read scripture daily and encouraged her sisters to do the same (Healy, 7), “Catherine and the community used to gather at eight o’clock in the evening to pray night prayers with the women in the House of Mercy and the people of the neighborhood” (Sullivan).
	csmstu01.csm.edu /students/tfascianella/catherine_mcauley.htm (2501 words)

	Catherine McAuley
		Catherine Elizabeth McAuley was born in Dublin, at Stormanstown House, on September 29th, 1778.
		McAuley, much younger than her husband, was left to raise three small children alone.
		Catherine had no plans to found a religious order, for she felt convinced this would force her and her supporters to take vows of enclosure.
	homepage.eircom.net /~scoilcarmel/catherine_mcauley.htm (805 words)

	MIA - Mercy Foundress
		Catherine had a sister Mary, and a brother James who was born a few months before their father's death in 1783.
		Catherine's early childhood was characterized by family love, the inspiring example of her father, and filial happiness.
		Here Catherine developed her merciful spirit and grew in her personal grasp of Catholic faith and practice, her love for those who were poor and neglected, and her determination to serve them in the manner of Jesus Christ.
	www.mercyworld.org /foundress/story.asp (398 words)

	Sisters of Mercy Dallas Regional Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catherine, her brother, and her sister were taken in by distant relatives--virtuous people of high principle and contempt for anything Catholic.
		Catherine's gentle manner won for her loyal friends and when she was 40, she inherited a fortune from a childless couple that she had befriended--its value today would be about a million dollars.
		Catherine was "remarkably well-made, attentive to good grooming and conservative in her dress," according to an artist of her time who is quoted in "Mercy unto Thousands." She "lived in what is usually called good style.
	www.somdallasreg.org /nhistory.htm (1108 words)

	Catherine McAuley
		But Catherine's concern for the marginalised was equalled by her wisdom and she intended that the wealthy of this area would be brought into daily contact with struggles of the poor.
		While Catherine was encouraged to consider establishing a religious congregation the idea did not appeal to her, but once she was assured she and her companions could continue with their work she at last consented.
		Catherine McAuley Died on November 11, 1841 and as she had wished was buried in a ceremony that was customary for the poor.
	www.sac.sa.edu.au /AboutUs/AboutUs_files/cathmac.htm (1012 words)

	Mercy Works Inc. - Catherine McAuley
		Catherine therefore began her own religious order, Sisters of Mercy, when she was 53 years of age.
		Catherine died on 11 November, 1841, having established 14 houses in the ten years of her life as a Sister of Mercy.
		Catherine made a difference in her time and her influence continues to be felt today.
	www.mercyworks.org.au /catherine_mcauley/legacy.html (286 words)

	The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841
		Catherine McAuley (1778-1841) founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin in 1831.
		Whether McAuley is writing to family members, bishops, her solicitor, priests, lay coworkers, or Sisters of Mercy in Ireland and England, her letters reveal striking details about the church and society of her day as well as about her own spiritual convictions and unstinting personal service to poor, sick, homeless, or uneducated adults and children.
		This edition of McAuley’s correspondence is readily accessible to general readers and demonstrates not only her important role in the founding and amazing spread of the Mercy congregation in her lifetime (now numbering more than 10,000 members globally), but also her personal contributions to the pastoral development of the church in Ireland and England.
	cuapress.cua.edu /books/viewbook.cfm?Book=SUCC (720 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sisters of Mercy
		McAuley strove as much as was possible to keep the faith alive in those who had so many inducements to relinquish it, and engaged in many charitable works.
		McAuley did not long survive her husband, and after her death the orphans passed into the family of a relative who invested their patrimony for their benefit.
		Catherine, however, could not be induced by threats or promises to join in Protestant worship, for she clung with strange pertinacity to the very name Catholic; but having no one to consult in her doubts, she finally became unsettled in her
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10199a.htm (2137 words)

	:: Welcome to Catherine McAuley High School - Where the Spirit of Learning Soars! :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catherine McAuley High School, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, strives to educate the whole person through excellence in education based on values inherent in our Judeo-Christian heritage.
		With the example of Catherine McAuley herself as a guide, we enable each student to be a woman of Mercy: well-educated, self-disciplined, enriched by diversity, able to lead, and willing to serve others.
		Catherine McAuley High School was established by the Portland Regional Community of the Sisters of Mercy in 1969 from the merger of two other institutions: St. Joseph's Academy and Cathedral High School.
	www.mcauleyhs.org /history.asp (382 words)

	Sisters of Mercy - Catherine McAuley
		Catherine McAuley was born near Dublin, Ireland, in September, 1778 to a prosperous Catholic family.
		In 1824, Catherine used her inheritance to lease property on Baggot Street, a fashionable neighborhood in Dublin, for the purpose of building a large house for religious, educational and social services for women and children.
		Catherine and two of her associates entered the Convent of the Presentation Sisters in Dublin on Sept. 8, 1830, to begin formal preparation for founding the Sisters of Mercy.
	www.sistersofmercy.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=109&Itemid=164 (474 words)

	Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Twenty years later Catherine inherited the Callaghan family estate and finally was able to practice her religion and pursue her calling to help those in need.
		Over the next few years, Catherine was able to bring together a cadre of the social elite to teach and care for the children of the poor.
		Just ten years later, Catherine McAuley died of tuberculosis, but by then there were 100 Sisters to carry on her work.
	www.biacc.org /hospital.htm (1073 words)

	Catherine McAuley and the Sisters of Mercy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		James McAuley's death in 1783 meant that Catherine would spend the next 20 years searching for ways to fulfill the stirrings inside that urged her to do something permanent for Ireland's poor, uneducated, unskilled, sick, and neglected.
		When Catherine inherited the fortune of a couple she had lived with for 20 years, she built the first House of Mercy where women who were poor, abused, and neglected would be welcome.
		The challenge of Catherine McAuley urges us all to "connect the rich to the poor, the healthy to the sick, the educated and the skilled to the uninstructed, the influential to those of no consequence, and the powerful to the weak to do the work of God on earth."
	www.mercyvolunteers.org /about_pages_folder/about_b.html (814 words)

	CATHERINE McAULEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catherine divided her time between caring for these children, supervising the building at Baggot Street and visiting her ill sister in Dundrum.
		Catherine was invited to go to Paris to learn about the management of schools and orphanages for the poor.
		It is not surprising that at the age of 50 Catherine was physically exhausted and having started the Institute of Mercy and set it on a firm foundation she died quietly in Baggot Street on 11th November 1841.
	www.iol.ie /~mcoolock/mercyhp/catmerc.htm (508 words)

	Mercy Center of Madison
		In 1778, when Catherine McAuley, the foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, was born into a Catholic family in Dublin, Catholics were considered vulgar.
		Still, Catherine remained faithful to her father’s spirit and, in particular, to his concern for the poor.
		Catherine's gentle manner won for her loyal friends, and when she was 40, she inherited a fortune from a childless couple that she had befriended.
	www.mercyctrmadison.com /aboutUs/story.asp (480 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catherine, an Irish Catholic laywoman, used her sizable inheritance to build the House of Mercy as a safe shelter and place of education for young women who came to Dublin from the surrounding countryside seeking employment.
		Unknowingly, Catherine McAuley planted the seeds of a new religious congregation.
		In 1843, two years after the death of Catherine McAuley, Mother Frances Warde (pictured on the right) left Carlow, Ireland to establish in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the first of many Mercy foundations in the United States.
	www.sistersofmercymerion.org /history.htm (871 words)

	Catherine McAuley HS Home
		Catherine McAuley High School is a small, all-girls' Catholic school in the diverse community of East Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York.
		McAuley was founded in 1942 by the Sisters of Mercy, and has provided an "Education For Life" for 65 years.
		Catherine McAuley, a Catholic high school, admits Christian students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin to all rights, privileges, and programs generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
	www.mcauleybrooklyn.org (161 words)

	Catherine McAuley: The Legacy Lives - News
		Catherine McAuley's example is one for all to follow.
		Catherine once walked through the poorest streets of Dublin, Ireland and was taken back by what she saw: ignorance, neglect, disease, helpless hunger and hopeless prejudice.
		McAuley began the religious institution, the Religious Sisters of Mercy, with seven co-workers.
	media.www.highlandernews.net /media/storage/paper1085/news/2006/10/16/News/Catherine.Mcauley.The.Legacy.Lives-2370414.shtml (648 words)

	CATHERINE McAULEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catherine was twenty years old, thoughtful and mature beyond her years, so Mrs.
		Catherine's sympathetic attitude to the ageing woman brought peace and calm to a troubled mind.
		Callaghan was a Quaker and, as is usual with Quakers, she was generous to the poor, Catherine had permission from her to visit the poor families in the Coolock area.
	www.iol.ie /~mcoolock/mercyhp/catcall.htm (377 words)

	Catherine McAuley Center - Non-profit Organization : Tea Gifts : Religious Gifts : Sisters of Mercy
		The Catherine McAuley Center, founded by the Sisters of Mercy, promotes the well-being and dignity of individuals in need by providing basic education for adults and a housing program for women.
		The Catherine McAuley Transitional Housing Program is unique in Iowa, providing unaccompanied women over the age of 18 with a safe place to live and individualized program of guidance to help stabilize their lives.
		They may come to the Catherine McAuley Center to prepare for the GED test, study English as a Second Language (ESL), improve basic math skills, language skills or develop basic computer skills.
	www.catherinestea.org /tearoom/1_miss.php (428 words)

	September 24: Catherine McAuley; Christian History Institute
		Many of her helpers were inclined to religious vocations, but, except for a daily routine which included spiritual exercises and a uniform adopted for convenience sake, her House of Mercy made no effort to become a religious order.
		Catherine was trying to compete with the Sisters of Charity.
		Rather than give up the work which had come to mean a good deal to her, Catherine agreed to receive religious instruction and develop her work into a charitable order.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/09/daily-09-24-2001.shtml (531 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Correspondence Of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841: Livres en anglais: Mary C. Sullivan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Whether McAuley is writing to family members, bishops, her solicitor, priests, lay coworkers, or Sisters of Mercy in Ireland and England, her letters reveal striking details about the church and society of her day as well as about her own spiritual convictions and unstinting personal service to poor, sick, homeless, or uneducated adults and children.
		The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841, is a new, fully documented edition of more than 320 surviving letters written by, to, or about McAuley during her lifetime.
		This edition of McAuley’s correspondence is readily accessible to general readers and demonstrates not only her important role in the founding and amazing spread of the Mercy congregation in her lifetime (now numbering more than 10,000 members globally), but also her personal contributions to the pastoral development of the church in Ireland and England.
	www.amazon.fr /Correspondence-Catherine-McAuley-1818-1841/dp/0813213959 (539 words)

	Catherine McAuley
		Catherine McAuley was born at Stormanstown House near Dublin on 29 September 1778 to James and Elinor McAuley.
		When Catherine was twenty-five, a retired Quaker couple, William and Catherine Callaghan, invited her to live with them at Coolock, an estate not too distant from the centre of Dublin.
		Catherine proved to be a loving companion until their deaths, and when Mr.
	www.allhallows.qld.edu.au /prospectus/history/catherine.asp (447 words)

	Assumption High School - Heritage and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Catherine McAuley unexpectedly inherited a fortune at age 50, she spent it all to build a house in Dublin for homeless and abused women.
		Catherine and her associates also visited the sick in their homes and in hospitals.
		After studying for a year with another order, Catherine McAuley took vows as the first Sister of Mercy on December 12, 1831, and the new congregation was born.
	www.ahsrockets.org /heritage.cfm (843 words)

	Famous Irish Women ~ Catherine Elizabeth McAuley
		Catherine Elizabeth McAuley was born in Dublin, at Stormanstown House, the home of her parents on September 29, 1778.
		It was a severe and prolonged spiritual trial for Catherine, being forced to listen to endless theological discussions, hearing the doctrines of the Catholic faith held up to scorn and derision - a favorite topic for lively debate at the dinner table, especially when guests were present.
		Catherine died on November 11, 1841 and within five years of her death, there were Sisters of Mercy in Ireland, England, Newfoundland, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
	www.geocities.com /pettigolass/mcauley.html (697 words)

	:: Welcome to Catherine McAuley High School - Where the Spirit of Learning Soars! :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		MISSION STATEMENT: Catherine McAuley High School, a Catholic, college preparatory high school for young women, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, is committed to academic excellence within the Judeo-Christian tradition and the spirit and mission of Catherine McAuley, Foundress of the Sisters of Mercy.
		McAuley’s Annual Christmas Concert was held Dec. 7th, in the Auditorium with performances by the Catherine McAuley Band, Chorus, Chamber Choral, and Theaterworks.
		Catherine McAuley High School (CMHS), a Catholic college preparatory high school for young women is seeking qualified candidates for the position of President.
	www.mcauleyhs.org (4751 words)

	ISMA - History
		On 12 December, 1831, Catherine McAuley, with two companions, made religious profession in the Presentation Convent of Georges Hill, Dublin where they had spent the previous year of the novitiate.
		He appointed Catherine as superior and a month later received as the first Mercy novices seven of Catherine's helpers who had worked with her from the beginning.
		Catherine's concept of a Religious Institute included an availability for ministry not typical in that era.
	www.mercysisters.org.au /about/history.html (1070 words)

	A History of Venerable Catherine McAuley
		Catherine McAuley was born near Dublin, Ireland on September 29, 1778.
		Catherine sought to provide solace to sick and needy families, to train young girls for employment and to instruct poor children.
		Mother Catherine was gifted with a profound love of God, expressed in a deep love for her Sisters, and a tremendous sense of humor able to help sustain others through difficult times.
	www.rsmofalma.org /history/history.html (380 words)

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