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Catherine Spalding, SCN - A Life in Letters (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Catherine Spalding, SCN - A Life in Letters (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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At the age of nineteen, Catherine Spalding (1793--1858) ventured
into what would become a lifetime of leadership with the Sisters of
Charity of Nazareth (SCN) -- one of the most significant American
religious communities for women. As a cofounder and first superior
of the order, she dedicated her life to developing and improving
health care, services for orphans, and education on the early
frontier. Her contributions had a lasting impact on Catholicism,
the state of Kentucky, and the many people whose lives she touched.
Mary Ellen Doyle supplements her definitive biography of the
influential educator and humanitarian, Pioneer Spirit, with this
meticulously edited and annotated volume. The collected
correspondence illustrates Spalding's exemplary character and the
scope of her day-to-day life as an administrator. Together, the
letters reveal a new picture of Spalding's personality and drive,
her insights, her trials, and her world as mother superior. The
collection also gives readers a valuable glimpse of antebellum life
in Kentucky and the wider south. Doyle presents the correspondence
chronologically, following Spalding through key stages in her
career from the founding of the SCN to her final years, as she
turned to quieter cares. She provides essential historical context
and information about Spalding's various correspondents, and she
also analyzes the significance of letters missing from the
collection. Catherine Spalding, SCN brings the SCN founder's words
to a broader audience and offers readers new perspectives on both
the world in which she lived and frontier faith.
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