Breaking new ground in presenting the life of Catherine McAuley
(1778?-1841), the Dublin woman who founded the Sisters of Mercy,
Mary C. Sullivan has written the first full-length, documented
narrative of McAuley in more than fifty years. This work places
McAuley in her Irish context, particularly in post-penal Dublin,
where the destitution, epidemics, and lack of basic education,
especially of poor women and young girls, led her to a life of
practical mercifulness. Using extensive primary sources and
questioning aspects of earlier accounts, The Path of Mercy
illumines Catherine's personality and details her life. It recounts
her efforts, using her inheritance from her foster parents, to
address the poverties of Irish people in her time. Together with
those who eventually joined her when she founded the Sisters of
Mercy in 1831, she sheltered homeless women, taught them employable
skills, opened a school for the daughters of the very poor, and
visited the sick and dying in the slums of Dublin. Later she
founded the same works of mercy in nine other towns in Ireland, and
in two cities in England. An intelligent, courageous, humorous
woman, she was, even when exhausted by the rigors of her travel and
ministries, always moved to ""get up again,"" as she said, for the
sake of those in need. She wrote poems and letters to novices and
others, urged the community to ""dance every evening,"" and never
wished to be called ""Reverend Mother."" At age sixty-three she
died of tuberculosis in the Baggot Street convent. During the past
180 years more than 55,000 Sisters of Mercy have served among the
poor and needy throughout the world.
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