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Venerable Catherine McAuley - Foundress of Religious Sister of Mercy

Catherine recognized the many needs of people who were economically poor in early nineteenth-century Ireland and determined that she and women like her could make a difference. Spending her inheritance, she opened the first House of Mercy on Lower Baggot Street in Dublin, Ireland, on September 24, 1827, as a place to shelter and educate women and girls. Catherine’s original intention was to assemble a lay corps of Catholic social workers. Impressed by her good works and the importance of continuity in the ministry, the Archbishop of Dublin advised her to establish a religious congregation. Three years later, on December 12, 1831, Catherine and two companions became the first Sisters of Mercy.