to the Convent). Up to this point monastic enclosure dictated what apostolate could be undertaken by women. On December 8th 1830 Catherine, Anna Maria Doyle and Elizabeth Hurley began their novitiate in the Presentation Convent in George's Hill and were professed according to a special vow formula approved by the Archbishop. Ten years and a total of fourteen foundations later, Catherine died and was buried in the Convent cemetery in Baggot Street. Catherine's death Catherine's declining health was first noted in 1835 (57) the year of her foundation in Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown Co. Dublin) She was already dying at the time of the Birmingham foundation in 1841. The right lung was diseased and she could not go out into the garden. Her prayer at this time was that God would give her the grace of a "holy penitential preparation". During the second week of September 1841 she moved into the Convent infirmary in Baggot Street, made little of her illness and exuded a confident abandonment to God and tried to console her Sisters with words of love and affection. She had an ulcerated mouth; pulmonary TB complicated by an internal abscess (empyema) and was found also to have a weeping ulcer on her lower back brought about by the use of a penitential chain and hair shirt. Only the infirmarian was permitted to treat this ulcer, she did not want anyone else to know about her personal mortification done for love. Her physical suffering increased greatly as the month moved