175 YEARS – 50 GREAT CATHOLICS / Carmen Mangion on Sr Mary Clare Moore

Born in Dublin To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose adored. In October 1854 she led on 20 March a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal a party of four Bermondsey sisters 1814, Georgiana inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best to join Nightingale to nurse in the Moore converted Crimea. Jerry Barrett’s painting to Catholicism the first four women to join her, the leaders that founded nine Mission of Mercy: Florence with her mother taking the name Mary Clare. Convents of Mercy in England. Nightingale receiving the wounded in 1823. Aged Aged 23, Moore became supe- She worked well with the at Scutari (in the National Portrait 14, she was rior of the Cork convent. Then in English hierarchy, becoming a Gallery) gives us our only contem- employed by the founder of the 1839, she was lent to the first close and trusted confidante of porary image of her. Her face, like Sisters of Mercy, Catherine English foundation in the slums Thomas Grant, the Bishop of her life, is in the shadows. McAuley, as a governess but was of Bermondsey, south London. Southwark. Her letters to her sis- Mary Clare Moore died of soon drawn by her House of She managed the Convent of ters reflect her compassion and pleurisy in 1874, aged only 60, Mercy, a refuge and school for Mercy in Bermondsey until her encouragement. She wrote to con- but worn out by her exertions on impoverished female servants death in 1874. gratulate sisters on their behalf of a religious life and a reli- and children. Catherine’s original This “cherished daughter” of anniversaries, to advise them in gious family that she held dear. intention was to assemble a lay Catherine McAuley was an able their dealings with clergy, and to . corps of Catholic social workers administrator. One bishop noted: encourage them to look on the Carmen Mangion is the author of but when she formed the Sisters “Her governing powers were bright side. Contested Identities: Catholic of Mercy, a religious community extraordinary … she was fit to rule Mary Clare Moore was also the Women Religious in nineteenth- in Dublin, Georgiana was one of a kingdom.” She went on to mould nun that Florence Nightingale century England and Wales.

PUZZLES

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