Divine providence, discretion, prayer, and obedience Each of these treatises contains instruction and inspiration for your daily life as they did for catherine and her contemporaries. First published 1931 first paperback edition 2011 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the british library. Of the parents and ancestors of the blessed catherine, and how at eight years of age she began to do penance Her gift of prayer, and of her desire to enter into religion, and her marriage against her will.
It is established that the servant of god catherine mcauley, foundress of the sisters of mercy, practiced to a heroic degree the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity toward god and neighbor, and along with them the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. Catherine was especially praised in english newspapers for her inoculation against smallpox, a practice that was popularized in the eighteenth century in britain and its north american colonies.
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