Catherine McAuley and the Tradition of Mercy

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

AvMary C. Sullivan

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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 women. This proved to be the first step toward the foundation, in 1831, of the Sisters of Mercy, an order now established throughout the world, and in 1990, Pope John Paul II declared Catherine McAuley as Venerable.The present volume, a collection of some of the most important writings by and about Catherine McAuley, includes letters, memoirs, and annals by many of the first Sisters of Mercy and McAuley's original manuscript of the Rule and Constitutions of the order, critically edited for the first time.

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Utgivningsdatum1995-08-15
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt631 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor430
FörlagUniversity of Notre Dame Press
ISBN9780268008116

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"The most attractive aspect of this work is its fidelity to the unfolding of a religious movement from a single charismatic figure to the flowering of a world-wide mission of Mercy." —Irish Theological Quarterly"Mary Sullivan has made accessible to the historian of nineteenth-century women's history, and indeed the general reader with a special interest in Catherine McAuley, a rich mine of documentary material. And most significantly, her work on the development of Constitutions of the Sisters of Mercy is an important seminal contribution to the study of Catherine McAuley, the Sisters of Mercy, and the development of religious life at that time ..." —Journal of Religious History