Life of Catherine McAuley
Subtitle: Foundress And First Superior Of The Institute Of Religious Sisters Of Mercy
Publisher: D. & J. Sadlier
Published: 1866
Place of publication: New York, USA
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Introduction. By Rev. Richard Baptist O'Brien, D. D., etc., etc Page 17; title: CHAPTER I.; title: Woman in the Church. —  "The devout sex." — General characteristics of Catherine McAuley. 37; title: CHAPTER II.; title: Dublin. — Baggot- street House. 1827. — Era of the Emancipation. —  Opening of the year 1787. — Apostasy of Lord Dunboyne. — Birth of Catherine. — Difference of statements as to the year of her birth. —  An Eastern tradition. —  Religious state of Ireland in the 18th century. —  " Ite, Missa EeV — Extract from Gorres. — A tragedy. — The Earl of Chesterfield, viceroy. — He permits the reopening of some old Catholic churches. — Attempts to open schools. — Nano Nagle. — Princess Louise 41; title: CHAPTER III.; title: James McAuley, Esq. — His zeal for instructing children. — Little Catherine Eleanor McAuley. —  Domestic altercations. —  Death of Mr McAuley. — Responsibility of parents. —  Ghosts in Stormanstown House. — Its inmates remove to Dublin. —  Madame St. George. — Mrs. MoAnley's early training, and its consequences. — Her judicious mode of governing children. — Catherine on "good manners." — Death of her mother. — Its influence on Catherine. —  The contrast between the deaths of the mother and daughter. — Catherine's aeal for preparing children for Confirmation 54; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: Surgeon Conway. —  Catherine and Mary removed from all Catholic influence. — The two Cathedrals of Dublin. — Amiability of Catherine. — She essays to write Latin exercises. — The pedagogue. — Catherine's religious difficulties. — Her esteem for her Protestant friends. —  Her theological and historical studies, — Surgeon Conway's financial reverse. — Catherine's cheerfulness under affliction. — She is adopted by the wealthy owner of Coolock House. — Dean Lube. —  Very Rev. Dr. Betagh 64; title: CHAPTER V.; title: Catherine instructed by Very Rev. Dr. Murray. — Mr. Callahan. — His portrait. — Mrs. Callahan. — Her generosity. — An unfortunate alliance. — Another. — A death-bed. — Catherine's godchild, Teresa. — Importance of prayer and deliberation before choosing a state in life 74; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: Dr. James McAuley. —  Dr. William McAuley. —  Table-talk. —  Catherine's considerateness for converts. — Bigotry usually the result of early training. — Catherine's life at Coolock. —  Her trials. — Her zeal for the poor. — Her views on the importance of the education of women of the lower classes 80; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: A soul in danger. — The Servants' Asylum. — The lost sheep. — Shadows of coming events. — Catherine's efforts to make the poor industrious. —  Her moderate expectations. — The rich man and his heiress 89; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: Conversion of Mrs. Callahan. — Her death. — Her husband's grief. — Rev. Mr. M prescribes wiru as a preparation to die well. The new gospellers and the old. —  Mr. Callahan's conversion and death. —  His will. —  Very  Rev. Dr. Armstrong. —  His disinterestedness 98; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: Catherine's fortune. — Her charities. — Death of her only sister. — Mr. Williams' grief. — An exciting scene. — Catherine's midnight sortie. — The sentinels. — The reconciliation. —  Her hair becomes " gray, but not with years." Ill; title: CHAPTER X.; title: Beauty everywhere. — Something lovely in every one. —  Mary Teresa McAuley. — She evinces a desire to become a Catholic — Her aunt's devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. —  The Mea Culpa 120; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: Projects of the Foundress. —  First stone of Baggot-street House laid. — V. R. Dr. Blake's presentiment. — He is summoned to Rome to restore the Irish College. —  Miss Fanny Tighe. —  Miss McAuley's architects build a Convent. — Very Rev. Dr. Armstrong's illness and death. — Mr. Callahan's will contested. — The Institution opened. —  Action versus contemplation. —  Extracts from Ven. Archdeacon O'Brien 125; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: Mother McAuley's associates assume a distinctive dress. —  Her relatives urge her to marry. — Major W.'s constancy. —  A scene. —  An amusing incident- Mary Teresa not allowed to associate with her aunt. — The Captain's theology. — His recollections of Waterloo. —  Severity and mildness. — Intolerance on the decrease. — Dr. "Williams 1 death. —  A scene between the guardians of his children 186; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: The O'Connell family. — The Liberator a Scruple Doctor. —  His speeeh in a school-room. —  His interest in the new Institute. —  He dines with the poor children 146; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: Our Lady of Mercy. —  Accessions. —  Rev. Father Lcstrange. —  Very Rev. Father O'Hanlon's Novitiate. —  The Military and Religions Order of Our Lady of Mercy. — Sisters of Mercy founded by Princess Teresa Doria. — Dedication of the Chapel in Baggot-street. —  Opposition to the Institute. — Extract from Dr. Blake's sermon. — Charitable institutions founded in Ireland during the last century. —  Foundresses— " C. McAuley, Esq." — Severity of the Archbishop. — Anomalous position of the Institute. —  Dr. Blake's kindness. —  Kindness of several religious houses. — The Presentation Rule. — Catherine enters George's Hill Convent. — Sister M. Magdalen Flynn. —  Indulgences granted to the new Institute 148; title: CHAPTER XV.; title: Use of the Novitiate. — The Novice and the Mistress. —  Incidents of Catherine's Novitiate. —  Trials. — Catherine's reception. —  Behind the grille. —  Eminent virtues Catherine observed in the Abbess and Religious of George's Hill. — Pupils of the Presentation Nuns 162; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: Caroline Murphy. —  Caroline, Princess of Wales. — A seraphic death. —  Extraordinary kindness of the Carmelite Fathers. —  New trials for Sister Mary Catherine 170; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: Sister M. Catherine's Profession. —  Her return to Boggot-strcet. —  Her first lecture. — Extracts from her instructions. — Her mode of correcting. —  The office of Superior. —  How Mother McAuley exercised it. —  One paragraph suffices for rules and constitution for the Institute. — A generous rival. — Mother McAuley combines the active and contemplative lives. — Intercourse with seculars. 178; title: CHAPTER XVIII.; title: The first Reception. — Costume of the Order devised by the Foundress. — General end of all Orders. — Special end of the Order of Mercy. — Mother McAuley's arrangements for the protection of distressed women. — She insists that they shall be governed by mildness. — "A shirt for the Lord-Lieutenant" causes a little commotion. —  Contrasts. — A soul rescued. 181; title: CHAPTER XIX.; title: Visitation of the sick. — How Mother MoAnley caused the public hospitals to be opened to all religious bodies that chose to visit them. — The poor, the middle class, and the rich. — Court life at Versailles considered by Madame Louise to be more monotonous than conventual life. — "Good Queen Maude." — The poor the treasures of the Church. — Anecdotes 191; title: CHAPTER XX.; title: Mother McAuley's views on education. — The regulations she made. —  Catholic and Non-Catholic educationists. —  Anecdote. — Pestalozzi, Bell, Lancaster, Jacotot. —  The Kildare-street schools. —  The National Board. —  The Christian Brothers. —  Gerald Griffin's grave. — Catholic priests inaugurators of gratuitous instruction. —  Education of the middle classes. —  Effect the example of our great educationists ought to have on those engaged in education 201; title: CHAPTER XXI.; title: New trials. —  Death of Sister Aloysia O'Grady. — Illness and death of Sister M. Elizabeth Harley. — Resignation of the Foundress. —  Supernatural joy at the death of a member, always characteristic of Religious Orders. 220; title: CHAPTER XXII.; title: The cholera in 1882. — Zeal of the Catholic Clergy. — Excitement of the people. — Mother McAuley takes charge of the Cholera Hospital, Townsend-street. — The garrulous nurse. — Extract from Dean Gaffney's Memoir of the Foundress 225; title: CHAPTER XXIII.; title: Distress of the poor in 1882. —  The Duchess of Kent. —  The Princess Victoria. — The Catholic queens. — A royal donation. — New accessions. — Profession. — Extract from Very Rev. Dominic Murphy. — Mary Teresa McAuley's interview with the Archbishop. — Her last days. — Her death. — Grief of the Foundress. 229; title: CHAPTER XXIV.; title: Rule and Constitutions of the Order of Mercy. — Lay Sisters. —  Very Rev. James Rice. — Opposition to the new Institute. — The Pope sends his approbation, and his apostolic benediction to its members. — Mother McAuley gives an account of the foundation of the Order. — Letters 289; title: CHAPTER XXV.; title: "Little Catherine." — Generosity of the Foundress. —  The Lord Bishop of Dromore. — Chief events of his life. —  His connection with the Foundress. —  His love for the Institute 248; title: CHAPTER XXVI.; title: Virtues of the Foundress. — Faith. — Hope. —  Charity. —  Prudence. —  Justice. —  Fortitude. —  Temperance. —  Humility. — Obedience. — Chastity. —  Poverty. —  Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. — Anecdotes 264; title: CHAPTER XXVII.; title: The First Branch. —  The wreck off Dunleary harbor. —  The excommunication, and its consequences. —  Sussex-place House. — Trials. —  Mother McAuley hiding from the sheriff. — Her letters. — A beautiful specimen. — Kingstown convent relinquished. — Reopened. —  Glasthule 278; title: CHAPTER XXVIII.; title: The Tullamore Foundation. —  Sermon of Very Rev. Dr. Curtis, S. J. —  Mother Mary Anne Doyle. — Father Mathew. — Generosity of the Foundress. —  Tullamore will neither lend nor give. — " A bitter scolding for Tullamore, and three cheers for Carlow." 287; title: CHAPTER XXIX.; title: Mother McAuley and her absent children. — Rhymes. — Her mode of preparing Sisters for Superiority. —  Her advice to a young Superior. — The Charleville Foundation. — Very Rev. Mr. Croke. —  Sister M. Angela Dunne. — Mother McAuley refuses to give a colony to her friend, the Bishop of OBSory. — Other applicants 294; title: CHAPTER XXX.; title: Very Rev. Andrew Fitzgerald, D. D. —  The McAuley boys. —  The Doctor and the Monk. —  Young men's sermons. —  Right Rev. Dr. Nolan. —  Dr. Doyle's error. — Mother McAuiey's temptation, and its remedy. —  She loses two of her Sisters. —  Sets out for Carlow. —  The Sisters' entree. —  Schools for the middle classes. —  The silver breakfast service. —  Death of Bishop Nolan. —  Letter of the Foundress. —  Letter from Dr. Fitzgerald 305; title: CHAPTER XXXI.; title: The Cork Foundation. — Miss Barbara Goold. —  "Saint Marie's of the Isle." — The Foundress inours the displeasure of the Bishop. — "Catherine the Less." — An eligible postulante. — The Meeting of the Waters. —  Largo, Lento, e Grave. — Death of Little Catherine. — Her Aunt's letter. —  Dr. Murphy. — Severe retort. — A heavy purse and a fair escutcheon. — The English Sisters. — A compliment. 322; title: CHAPTER XXXII.; title: Sister M. de Chantal. — Deaths. — A broken arm. —  "A boy that will not be good." — The Chaplaincy difficulties. —  Letters. — Dean Meyler. —  "Christ's Blessed Cross." — The Limerick Foundation. —  Death of Sister M. Teresa Potter. —  Letter of condolence 331; title: CHAPTER XXXIII.; title: Sister M. Gertrude Jones. —  She shows her brightest colors in dying. — Death of Robert McAuley. —  The English Sisters. —  National pride. —  "Geraldine." — The last glimpse of Erin. —  Visit to Newry. —  Departure of the Foundress for the London mission 345; title: CHAPTER XXXIV.; title: General government— Lady Barbara Eyre. —  Her Reception. —  The Court Friseur. —  An amusing incident. —  Gratitude of the Foundress. — Letters 356; title: CHAPTER XXXV.; title: Galway. —  "A second Mary Teresa." — The English Sisters. —  The Laundry. — Dr. Griffiths entreats more aid for Bennondsey. — Reception of the Sisters for the Birmingham Foundation. —  Reception in Galway. —  Difficulties. —  Very Rev. Peter Daly 367; title: CHAPTER XXXVI.; title: The Apostle of Temperance and The Sister of Mercy. — A Howard among the Teetotalers. —  Birr. —  Worse feuds than the "O'Carroll Feuds." — The Apostle's expedient. — The Crottyites. —  Mother McAuley on the progress of Temperance. — Letters from Birr. —  Conversion of Rev. Mr. Crotty. — "The sun shines too brightly" for the Foundress 377; title: CHAPTER XXXVII.; title: Fresh objections to the Institute. — Reverend Mother appeals to Rome. — Letter. - She loses the last of her "earthly joys." — Her warm attachment to her relatives. — The Naas Convent— A severe letter. —  O'Connell's speech at Carrick-on-Suir. —  The Wexford Convent. —  A spoiled vocation 389; title: CHAPTER XXXVIII.; title: Declining health of the Foundress. — The English Sisters. — Letter of the Bishop of Birmingham. — Bishop Wiseman. — The Bishop of Liverpool. — Miss G , of Eaton House. — Renewal of the Liverpool negotiations. —  Letter of Dr. Youens. —  Dr. Pusey. —  Confirmation of the Rule. — The Birmingham Foundation 398; title: CHAPTER XXXIX.; title: Return of the London Superioress. —  Innovations and reformations. — Unfavorable Report by an English priest. — Very Rev. Dr. Butler congratulates himself on being independent of "borrowed plumes." — Stormy nationality. — Forbearance of the Foundress. — Visions. — Bishop Baines. — "Where Paul and I differ." — The lady who has had the visions secedes. —  She goes to Rome. — Is protected by Cardinals Acton and Fransone. — She gives her revelations in a Catholic novel. — The "Solitaries" and "Handmaids" disperse. — Their projector writes another story. — Why did she leave us ? 407; title: CHAPTER XL.; title: The Foundress writes to the Bishop of Galway. —  Her return to Ireland. — Letters to Very Rev. Dr. Burke, of Westport; to Sister M. Joseph Joyce; to Mother Teresa White. —  Her continued interest in her Houses. —  Her zeal. — Old opinions about the New World   422; title: CHAPTER XLI.; title: All Saints' Day. — All Souls' Day. — Joy of the Foundress at the approach of death. — She receives the Last Sacraments. — Her last moments. — The ruling passion strong in death. —  Her obsequies. —  The remains of her departed children are brought home. —  Her personal appearance. —  Her portrait. —  Statistics of the Order 480; title: CHAPTER XLII.; title: Letter of Bishop Blake. —  Letter of Dr. Gaffney, Dean of Maynooth. —  Obituary, from the Halifax Regitter 442; title: CHAPTER XLIII.; title: Mother McAuley's views on various subjects. — Gentleness. —  St. Anselm. — St. Catherine of Bologna. — Sweetness and condescension. — Importance of the education of women. —  Patron Saints. — Amusing anecdote. —  Converts. — Regular observance. —  Works of literature and art. — M. HAbbe' Grou. — Mother McAuley's special devotions. — Her abstraction. — Her appreciation of the Sisters. — Her unbounded confidence in them. — Profession and renovation. Prayer. — De La Mennais. — Conclusion 448; title: APPENDIX.; title: Letters 465; title: List of the Convents, etc., founded by Mother McAuley 486; title: R. I. P. —  Obituary 487; title: Convents of Mercy founded up to the year 1868 495