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Catherine Spalding, SCN : a life in letters / Mary Ellen Doyle, SCN.
Van Pelt Library BX4456.Z8 D69 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Mary Ellen, 1932-2019, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spalding, Catherine, 1793-1858.
- Spalding, Catherine.
- Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (Nazareth, Ky.)--Biography.
- Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (Nazareth, Ky.).
- Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (Nazareth, Ky.)--Correspondence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Records and correspondence.
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 317, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
- Summary:
- At the age of nineteen, Catherine Spalding (1793-1858) ventured into what would become a lifetime of leadership with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN)-one of the most significant American religious communities for women. As a cofounder and first superior of the order, she dedicated her life to developing and improving health care, services for orphans, and education on the early frontier. Her contributions had a lasting impact on Catholicism, the state of Kentucky, and the many people whose lives she touched. Mary Ellen Doyle supplements her definitive biography of the influential educator and humanitarian, Pioneer Spirit, with this meticulously edited and annotated volume. The collected correspondence illustrates Spalding's exemplary character and the scope of her day-to-day life as an administrator and follows Spalding through key stages in her career, from the founding of the SCN to her final years, when she turned to quieter cares. Together, the letters to and from Spalding reveal a new picture of her personality and drive, her insights, her trials, and her world as Mother Superior. This accessible collection brings the SCN founder's words to a wider audience and offers readers new perspectives on both the world in which she lived and frontier faith. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Foundation years, 1812-1838
- Mother and administrator, 1838-1844
- Louisville Mission, 1844-1850
- Development at Nazareth, 1850-1856
- Final years, 1856-1858.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813168845
- 0813168848
- OCLC:
- 945951494
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