The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-02-28
A truly Valiant Daughter Of Erin.

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Truly Valiant Daughter Of Erin. lea
The Order of Mercy in London, and indeeo p
eligion itself, has recently received severe ~
,low BY the death of the Reverend haothei' u
Mary Glare Moore, one of the first companions
Of the venerated foundress OF the sisters VI d
Mercy, and foundress herself OF some n1teon
houses of her Order, with more than Snr''e
that number of benevolent institutions.
Georgina Moore was born in Dublin In lei@'
and having received the best educatlon tnat
could be procured for her, joined the mercy
Institute, while in it's infancy, in 1881. sne "Ae
ono of the First Seven" who received INC
habit from the hands of the Holy Foundress'
January 23d, 1881. In July, 1857, she was sent
with three companions to establish ofancn
of the Order in Cork, and, in 1882 AZ inc
earnest request of Bishop Grifiths, of London,
she crossed the Channel to found 8 Convent Oh
Mercy in Bermondsey, district OF tnas Guy
Mother Glare was woman OF vast so"inls'
trative ability. 1t was said OF her' tneS Sno
could have governed kingdom, had froVi- |
dence SO willed it, as easily as she governed
religious community. II never" said the
late Bishop Griffths, saw so much maturity
| in 40 Young q person. She has judgment In
sition during the earlier years of her mission in
England, were of every variety, and incessant'
It was at the risk of their lives that the Sisters
could appear in the streets OF London, throw
ing live Goals after them being favorite re-
creation with the more Juvenile cockneys.
In 1910 more than half the Bermondsey COM
munity died of typhus fever, caught while
ministering to the plague-stricken in the over
oh a6 alnnAt hGneAtl
the shadow of their elegant Pugin convent.
But the ranks were speedily filled up. Mother
Glare possessed large participation in the
Gift 40 couspicuous in the venerated Catherine
M'Auley, of attracting the young, the beautiful,
the talented, to her Institute, and inspiring
l them with the spirit of Mercy. Several of the
Q old historic families we're speedily represented
in her novitiates; among her First Seven
q were Elizabeth Constantia Agnew, authorizes
of Geraldine, and Lady Barbara Eyre, daughter
of the Earl of Newburgh. Asthe latter wa
the first lady of the rank of an Earls daughter
that had entered q Convent in the British
70 Isles since the Reformation, it was in her cas'
&c that Mother Glare was obliged to consult thu
q foundress as to whether any of the distinc
% tions allowed to titled ladies in most of tn
d converts of continental Europe could b.
d granted to the noble postulant. 1t ID wei
= known that the reply was decided negative
a virtue being the only arstocracy noticed o
, lated by the First Sister of Mercy.
r. In June, 1S4l, Mother Clare returned t
=. Ireland to remain in the first Convent she ha
. founded. She had the happiness of seeing tn
90 foundress once more, who always spoke OF he
u as "my old beloved companion, Sister Mar
~ Clare" Her rest, however, was of short dur:
On ton Bishop Grifiths 80 urgently representa-
70 the necessity of her return to her children l
ot London, that, after considerable demur, hi
he request was granted, and Mother Clare neve
TO- returned to her native land. She founde
f. Converts of Mercy In Bristol, Brighton, Gre
,es Almond street, London, Wigton, st. Cathoert
-, Abingdon, Gravesend, Chelsea and Coventr
:, In 1854 she accompanied several of her Siste
to the seat of war to nurse the wound'
VI soldiers and founded temporary establishment
l'e in Scutari, Balaklava, and near Sebsstopol.
'ty This truly valiant woman flushed her tot
some pilgrimage at the first of her Engli
ia foundations, Bermondsey, December-l6th, 1s'
be in the sixty-second year of her age and
forth-second of her Religious Professio
Ia having lived in the Institute over forty-fo
,ar- years. May God grant her eternal rest, Q
emit may the perpetual light of glory shine on
-: soul. Amen.
ndi- v. VIC mo" w. -
,b.- Mother McAuley, in 1884, two are still living
ndi- Mother NJ Frances Warde, Manchester, N.
the and Mother N. di Pazzi Delauy, Dublin. BIZ
par these ladies joined the foundress in 1929
Irful sister of Mother Glare Moore, also called
sm SUI, religion Sister NJ Glare, still survives
OBJ Baggot street Convent Dublin. Her tale
can for painting and illumination were careful
, fostered by the foundress; in the latter
C;ptar MorT houy
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