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Catherine McAuley gave Sister M. Elizabeth Moore a gift of advise and an account which detailed the plan of the congregation, stated by Catherine, which both Sister Doyle and Catherine both started, the purpose of the house that was built in the year ’27 was for charity and was approved by Doctor Murray. Doctor Blake and Rev. Mr Armstrong were both also involved, whereas they brought across their ideas and prayed dearly when the congregation was in progress. The desire to join the congregation was increasing by a hundred in total, surpassing their assumptions and at that moment they realized the true power of God.

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The congregation along with the sisters of mercy were going threw difficult times. The constant deaths of the sisters and the Loss of property did not stop others from crowding inside the congregation. Although they were going threw tough times no disobedience of the charity ever occurred. The obstacles they were facing served them as a form of motivation. The sisters cooperated in unity with God on their side trying to repair the past. Although Mother Catherine was not able to visit the convent, she managed to open it on September 1839 in a branch house from Carlow at Nas, and sent her concerns to M. Francis Warde and Sister M. Josephine Traynor. Furthermore, in November 21 1839, the convent of mercy in Bermondsey was established. Both DR. Thomas Griffiths and father peter butler were involved in the negotiation, Dr. Griffiths asked Catherine to build another church where Elizabeth Agnew and Maria Taylor would commence their apprenticeship in April 1838.

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Time passed by and a year later in August 1839 Mother Catherine was at failure to analyze the character of Sister M. Clare Agnew, since she was not following rules, doing her own thing and publishing the third volume of her best-selling book ‘Geraldine’, on the other hand her companion sister M. Augustine Taylor had more of a calm personality. In addition, mother Catherine took the sisters to visit the convents. On November 18 the foundations party was set to take place on London. They took a train from Queen Victoria to Liverpool and then to London as they arrived their final destination. Upon reaching mother Mary Clarke expressed she liked the Rutland Street convent instead, since the house only contained six rooms which were dark inside and also were uncomfortable. In 1840 her dissatisfaction towards the convent changes since she started to like Augustus Welby Pugin’s architectural design.

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Mother Catherine remained for two months in the convent built in London. There were thirty-six priests, six clothing’s including lady Barbara Eyre. As Mother Catherine climbed  up and down the stairs of the highest altar, the joy inside her exhibited. As two months passed by mother Catherine had symptoms of illness. Sister m. Teresa White voiced out that since the inauguration of the Bermondsey foundation it has come to her attention mother Catherine is very ill. On mother Catherine’s return she began to have inflammatory symptoms and began to get sore stomachs very often.  Furthermore, four days after mother Catherine’s last words of encouragement to Sister M. Elizabeth Moore, sister Elizabeth did not want to return to cork.  Later on, Sister M. Elizabeth then decided to go on a short visit to cork that lasted from (June to December 1841), after her short visit when she returned back to Bermondsey, she got the horrible news that mother Catherine had passed away and Sister Clare Agnew was no longer a sister of mercy. Once sister Clare took place in the government, she took a stand for all the females that they must be all treated equally.

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In 1835 Catherine McAuley found herself on an unusual position of being questioned by Irish bishops. They were also asking for sisters who would provide services for their respective dioceses similar to those established in Dublin. Mother Catherine could not bear to see Christ neglected in even the least of his little ones so she went ahead and welcomed those invitations. Even though, ill-health and death continued to snatch off the dearest and best of her sisters it did not discourage her. She also volunteered in 1840 or 1841 for Novi Scotia so as she went ahead she deprive Baggot Street of its wisest and most experienced sister in order to staff her new foundations. Then she undertook foundations in places where others refused to go because possibilities of material help were so inadequate. To the degree that she got a measure of local support in places and pre-arrangement with bishops. Due to this she assured that the sisters would have the minimum to which they were accustomed to but there were occasions when the sister were needed so in such cases Catherine would take Christ's word about not being concern for the future and with what she had she forged ahead.

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In 1835 Catherine McAuley opened her first branch foundation at Sussex Place, Kingstown. Later on, Rev. Bartholomew Sheridan welcomed Mother Catherine’s proposals for transforming some unused stables and the coach-house in Sussex Place into a school but he made no financial commitments. Then in June 1837 something transpired between her and Father Sheridan which was expressed in her own letter to her lawyer, Charles Cavanagh.
Therefore, Mr. Sheridan seemed quite ready to promote and brought Mr. Nugent of Kingstown to speak about the plan. When that was fixed she said that they had no means to give towards the expense but to encourage a new beginning. Catherine also promised to give little valuable things we had for the fair that year and to hand over whatever it produced. Therefore, with the passage of years, the Kingstown business became more and more of “a real portion of the Cross”.

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In April 21,1836 Mother Catherine set out by fly-boat along the Grand Canal to establish her first non-Dublin convent at Tullamore in County Offaly. At Tullamore they had dedicated young women that had formed a community round Miss Pentony with a view to one day be associated with a religious gathering dedicated to the works of mercy. When negotiation to this result proved unproductive with Mary Aikenhead, Dr O’ Rafferty the Vicar- General Meath, approached Catherine McAuley and she accepted. Therefore, she chose Sister M. Anne Doyle as superior for Tullamore and Sister M. Teresa Purcell assigned as her assistant, a novice nearing profession. Later on, it became an established practiced to bring either an appellant or novice to any new foundation to hold a ceremony or profession as soon as possible. Shortly after they had an opening of the Tullamore convent Elizabeth Locke, Mary Delamere and Catherine Barnwell entered. Also, another practice was the recitation of the Thirty Days’ Prayer introduced in Tullamore and was maintained in every foundation. Also, Courage, stability and reliance  were the theme of Catherine McAuley’s advice on December 20 1837 to Sister M. Angela Dunne to whom she had entrusted the Charleville foundation in October of the previous year.

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Catherine McAuley didn’t worry where she slept on the top floor and today the place is known as “Coronation Street”. The room in which she stayed in is still lived in, but her chair is an adored item, and the layout of the building has touches of Pugin everywhere. Within nine days of Catherine’s arrival in Birmingham, she felt weak so she sent a letter to Bishop Browne that she couldn’t make it to the profession in the city. Before returning to Dublin Mother Catherine had planned for a convent at Mount Vernon for which she trained Fanny Gibson in Baggot Street. On 20th of September, she told Sister M. Aloysius about her
pulmonary tuberculosis. Mother Catherine wrote multiple letters to a lot of
people and she requested them to pray to God that he may give her grace and to have a happy death. She also wrote
an exclusive letter to Sister M. Joseph Joyce.

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They were advance arrangements for Charleville that were about the promised donations of Miss Mary Clanchy; there were also petitions from Rev. Thomas Croke Charleville and Dr Bartholomew Crotty of Cloyne. The convent events are highly flattering of Mary Clanchy but shouldn’t be mention to Arthur French of Elphin which caused a reasonable cut-down of her original promise providing a suitable house for the sisters upcoming erection of their convent. After their endless cross- country journey by coach via Tullamore limerick the foundress and her companions found the Charleville house. At the same time Mother Catherine was determine that as long as a single penny of Miss Clanchy’s £500 lasted the Sisters of Mercy would not follow the examples of the French Sisters by withdrawing from town. In November 29 1836 Love of the Eucharist brought Mother Catherine and Sister M. Clare Moore fasting to Limerick. They set out from Charleville at 3:00 a.m. with the intention of receiving holy communion in Limerick before continuing their journey to Dublin.

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When she arrived she went with her companion to go look for a church; it was one o’clock before they got back to the hotel to breakfast. Sister M. Clare Moore who shared these inconveniences was later to write about Mother Catherine’s tender devotion towards the Adorable Sacrament.  Later on, the travelers reached Dublin next day in time to attend mass that was celebrated by Bishop John Murphy Cork who had come to negotiate for a group of sisters for his parish. Mother Catherine promised but found it more convenient to go first to Carlow at the request of the Bishop Edward Nolan, it was also on the strength of this handsome bequest that Dr. Nolan invited the sisters to his parish. In April 11 1837 they arrived, Carlow had multiple claims on the foundress. Later on, in Charleville they found themselves poorly but not damply housed. Mother Catherine before leaving Carlow she secured a promise of an annuity from the bishop and a guarantee from Dr Fitzgerald that the rent on the house they occupied would be suspended until the Sisters became more debt-free.

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Mother Catherine wrote a separate letter to Sister Joseph to congratulate her on her completion of her hopes and wishes. Sister Joseph created a union that Mother Catherine is proud of, and that God grants Sister Joseph grace and lots of blessings. On the 26th of October 1840 the end of Mother Catherine came peacefully, and all her fears of death were gone and she answered herself,” What is poor miserable world but a place of sorrow and disappointment”. In the Act of Oblation, Catherine’s attitude is beautifully reflected.  On the last days of Catherine McAuley full length biographies giving minute details were written.

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Mother Catherine’s suffering lasted from eleven in the morning until shortly before eight in the night. During this time Catherine spoke with family members, visiting priests and with the doctor whom she saved. At 5pm she asked for the blessed candle and joined in the final prayers. On Thursday, 11 November 1841 Mother Catherine died at ten minutes before eight o’clock on the feast of St Martin of Tours. On Monday she was laid to rest in the new cemetery at Baggot street. Sister M. Elizabeth Moore informed the daughter-houses of the death of the foundress, she addressed a note to the people. Before Mother Catherine died she said, “The Sisters are tired”, referring to those that came from far away. This was an incident Sister Elizabeth did not mention to show Mother Catherine’s unselfishness and her concern for others.

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In Carlow Catherine McCauley settles her first pension school. She founded it for the daughters of the better off middle classes. Catherine McCauley took on a challenge to give secondary education to those who would otherwise have to antedate. She would inspire them to be more responsibility and help the poor and that there was a possibility for the pension schools to provide congregation and vocations. Three months later after Catherine McCauley pension school in Carlow was founded, she  later opened her fifth convent at Rutland Street, Cork, 6 July 1837. After Catherine McCauley arrived in Cork with her companions she was welcomed by Bishop John Murphy. They later went for mass and to have breakfast, they later settled down in the house of Mrs. Barbara Gould. The convent was selected by the foundress to be the novitiate for subjects for her overseas establishment, she later on appointed sister M. Clare Moore of Cork as temporary superiors.

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Catherine McCauley admired Father Theobald Mathew for the expanding apostolate of the Sister of Mercy in Cork.
while no sort of progress in Corks was being achieved and there were deaths including Sr. M. Ann Agnes in Baggot Street and there were rumblings of the chaplaincy dispute which dragged on later after her dispute. There was also disagreement with Father John Murphy because he would not let the Cork Community take Daughter-houses at a time when Carlow was doing so with competence and success. In the year 1838 Catherine McCauley sent a later to Kingston saying she was hiding and afraid because some law person wanted to serve paper on her. When Kingston closed in November and the Blessed Sacrament was removed it brought great grief for Catherine McCauley and the epithets which she had been branded. The she wrote another letter to Sister M. Teresa White, the superioress of Kinston.

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Miss Elizabeth McGuinness an irritant chose to cover the travelling expenses for the sisters and she also felt benevolence entitled to certain concessions from the foundress, she wanted to become a lodger without having to be a benefactress of a foundress.  In April 1840 the convent reopened and that was the last time the Mother Catherine made her last visit when she returned from Birmingham in 1841. The convent closed again later on in 1842 and the permanent reestablishment came on a later date. On July 1838 Booster town convent opened as the convalescent house to replace Kingston.  Rev. John Canon Ennis and hostility and the interference with Sandy Mount Ursula caused anxiety for Sister M. Ursula. However, it raised Catherine McCauley expectations even though some things were out of line, she was only concerned that the poor would benefit by the sister’s presence. This thought caused her to buoyed up despite that there was “too much caution in Cork”. Catherine McCauley eight foundation and her fifth were made at Limerick on the 24 of September 1838

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It was her tradition to visit her provincial convents en route for Limerick delaying longer than scheduled at Charleville. Before leaving Charleville she saw the foundation stone of the new St Joseph’s laid and work commencing. Her impressions of Limerick over which she placed Sister M. Elizabeth Moore read best from her own account. There was Partisanship between supporters of the Sister of Mercy and those of the recently returned presentation sister was among the struggling list of the foundress. The foundress abstained from any involvement and preferred “to let it work by its ways” while the sisters and her concentrated on relieving the poor.  Bagot street was then arranged and then a House of Mercy was opened in November. A comprehensive scale was undertaken and the schools were placed under the board of education

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“Be sure they have a good cup of tea when I am gone”, is what Mother Catherine said. Ruskin points out that Mother Catherine is someone that can never be gone and that every honest life has left a good impact on earth. Catherine McAuley’s life is a congregation that touches every continent and country across the globe. There lays the memory of a woman who did not live long. She realized that the matter of life is to be faithful to Christ and to not let anyone in your way and distract you from God. Mother Catherine died at the age 64 and she is described as an courageous and compassionate woman whose early experiences shaped her life’s work in caring for the poor, sick and needy. She began a movement which was to fill the world with mercy. In the Scriptures she found the secret of life and love.

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One sense that is prompted to Mother Catherine is adaptability to reduce the term of postulancy in Limerick because the people were very sharp and said queer things. Each place has their own ideas and feelings in their own particular way and must be yielded to when possible. Catherine McCauley could hardly reach at this point, to be this close to the conciliar and make a recommendation about the thing that were needed to make adjustments according to the needs of time and place in favour that will benefit the Universal Church and individual dioceses. By this very concept she was adopted in to Limerick community two Poor Clare Sisters, they were the last members of a once-flourishing community, it was decided that in December the tree postulants would be clothed. She did help more on the trials besetting Limerick beyond confessing her disappointment with Sister M. Elizabeth Moore since they had never sent forward such a faint-hearted soldier. In consequence they found that it was necessary her prolong stay there.

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Sister Agnew got rejected after asking Bishop Griffiths for allowance to establish a perpetual Adoration in Bermondsey. Catherine wrote about two rules on how to follow it to be saved by God. She did not allow the spirit of prayer nor retreat to take place in the works of mercy and the charity work. Catherine McAuley didn't get to see the leaving of Sister M. Clare Agnew and Sister M. Augustine Taylor nor the recuperation of  Bermondsey who went to London in December 1841.

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Biir didnt want to change the foundations name. On 10 June one of the travelers who had stayed the over night with Carmelite Sisters and left for Galway the following morning, died, Mary Bourke. Leaving donations for Galway. Galway started to strive. Father Peter Daly would'nt let the foundress go back to Dublin but did after Father O' Hanlon helped her, using her health as an excuse. Sister M. Teresa had a terrible cough that she described as a "old man cough". She wrote a letter for her Sisters telling them that they'll meet again in heaven. In Feb 1841

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There was to be a Mercy Hospital that would be ran by Sister M. Vincent Whitty. Some Sisters had to go to Wexford quickly for a week. Biir was to follow but had to do what Sister M. Francis Warde of Carlow planned. She was interested in the Covent at Wexford. Rev. M Crotty believers rejected the Posters Biir wanted to replace him with. On 27th of December, the Convent of Birr was unfastened. She wrote about how God will always be there for us and provide enough. She'd Write letters to Mather Catherine's on how she was not so pleased on how the ceremonies  was going on the perish church.

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Also talked about how cold and snowy the place was. Biir would go on journeys to see poor families . She was creative in everything she did. On 15 January 1841 she shared her first achievement and would also go on leaving Biir on 10 February due to infection on her right side hip. Catherine McAuley came to an agreement with Dr Thomas Walsh to make a convent at Birmingham. she then trained four sisters, chose her Novice mistress and sister M.Cecilia Marmion as a short term superior. Catherine made Rules for the new foundation and wrote all about her ceremonies.
They say the Convent was very nice looking and being able to hold 20 sisters in it.