page_title: John McAuliffe
section_title: Childhood
hierarchical_section_title: John McAuliffe / Childhood
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo taken in 1941 at Metuchen
context_page_description: Brother Norbert McAuliffe was an American missionary known for his work in Uganda. He was born in lower Manhattan, New York on September 30, 1886. As a professed member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic religious community of laymen, he would worked in education for more than 50 years until his death on July 3, 1959, in Gulu, Uganda.
context_section_description: John was born to an Irish American working-class family in lower Manhattan.  His father, Daniel, was an immigrant from Ireland and worked on the docks of New York city.  His mother, Elizabeth or Lizzie, was Daniel's second wife and would raise a family of five children – three survived to adulthood – Walter, John and Elizabeth or Lillian.  John was baptized at St. Rose Church in lower Manhattan on November 7, 1886.  His father died after a short illness in 1893 and he and his siblings would be orphaned with the unexpected death of their mother on October 10, 1895.
  His sister, Elizabeth, went to stay with their half-brother, Daniel Jr, from their father's first marriage. Walter (aged 11) and John (aged 9) were accepted into St. Agnes Home in Sparkill, NY on November 13, 1895. After St. Agnes Home was destroyed by fire in 1899, the two brothers were separated with Walter going to the Catholic Protectory in New York City while John went to the new St. Agnes Home established in Troy, New York.
  In 1902, John's life direction would change with a visit to the home by Brother Stanislaus Keating.  The missionary work of the brothers and especially their work in orphanages attracted John's attention.  He was discharged from St. Agnes Home on April 30, 1902 and entered the formation house of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in Metuchen, New Jersey on May 1, 1902.
caption: Br. Norbert McAuliffe SC, 1941
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