When Catherine McAuley was five her dad died.
She lived with her friends and family and with 2 siblings- a brother and sister. She moved into the Callaghan's, who were family friends. Then when they died they gave her the money to build the House of Mercy. The father did not give anything to his daughter because he heard her talking badly about Catherine. Catherine McAuley became a nun aged 24 in 1827.
When she got to her teens her mother died from a fever.
She provided clothes/food for the poor she traveled to France to learn how to teach larger classes.
She taught the poor how to knit as a career.
And she helped women to get jobs. Catherine McAuley was born in Ireland in 1778.
She built the Mercy House on Bogget St, to show the rich people how bad it was for the poor so that they would help out.
Her to siblings were also protestants and they followed in their mother's steps.
