endowed by the God of mercy. Catherine the Person All through her life Catherine showed herself to be intelligent, practical and prayerful and above all deeply kind to others. Catherine was modern in her effort to 'decentralise' local authority/autonomy while keeping vital links with the 'heart' of the Congregation. She did not centralise excessively and allowed situations to be handled in their own locality without interfering. "The climax of her attractiveness writes a novice who knew her (Positio LXXXVII) was that she was always the same, always ready to listen, to consider and direct whenever applied to." Catherine was open to new pedagogical ideas. She had a methodology that highlighted catechism for the young. Catherine was ever able to deliver a clear, simple and comprehensible description of the principal truths of the faith. Her teaching could be a summa apologetica for the young Catherine was an ideal lay woman in the Catholic Church of her place. "The climax of her attractiveness writes a novice who knew her (Positio LXXXVII) was that she was always the same, always ready to listen, to consider and direct whenever applied to." Aspects of Catherine's life worth noting Her devotional life was rooted in Scripture. There was an absence of the merely sentimental. Her approach to the injustice inflicted on the poor was to empower them practically by providing them with opportunities to educate themselves. Her mode of governance was one that stressed the principle of subsidiary, sensitivity to the needs of the local Church,