McAULEY, CATHARINE ELIZABETH: Founder of the Sisters of Mercy; b. at Gormanatown House, near Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 29, 1787; d. at Dublin Nov.11,1841. She was born in the Roman Catholic faith, but, having been left an orphan, wee brought up in a Protestant family. At the age of eighteen she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Callahan of Coo lock House (north of Dublin), whom she converted to Roman Catholicism, and on the death of Mr. Cal lahan in 1822 she inherited his fortune. She now erected in Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, the House of our Bleared Lady of Mercy, which was completed in 1827. She sad two companions then underwent the novitiate in the Presentation convent of George's Hill, Dublin. They returned to Baggot Street in Dec., 1830, and in Jan., 1831, gave the religious dress to six sisters who had been in charge during their absence. Thus was founded the order of Sisters of Mercy (see Mercy, Sisters of).

Bibliography: Life of Catharine McAuley, New York, 1888; Dublin Review, March, 1847, pp. 1-25; DNB, mtiv. 420-421.

McAULEY, JEREMIAH: Methodist missionary; b. in Kerry, Ireland, about 1839; d. in New York Sept. 18, 1884. He had no schooling and when he was thirteen years old emigrated to America. There he assisted his sister's husband in his business in New York, but soon, falling in with evil compan ions, he left his home and became a river thief. When only nineteen years old he was arrested for highway robbery and although innocent of the charge was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment at Sing Sing (Jan., 1857). While in prison he was converted, largely through the me dium of Orville Gardner, a fellow convict, and he himself converted many others in the prison. Governor Din, after proof was laid before him of McAuley's innocence of the charge against him, pardoned him (Mar. 8, 1884). On leaving prison 17e had no friends to help him lead an honest life, .

and relapsed into his old ways. In 1872 he found Christian friends who assisted him, and in October of that year he.opened at 318 Water Street a "Helping Hand for Men," where he did a great amount of good and saved many a man from evil courses. 1n 1878 the old building was replaced by a better one, and the mission was incorporated as the MoAuley Water Street Mission. In 1882 he began another mission on Thirty-second Street, near Sixth Avenue, where he labored until his death. Himself an ex-convict, he knew the hardships and temptations of such men and therefore could aid and save them far better than many a man who had not had his experience.

Bibliography: R.. M. OHord, Jerry McAuley, his Life and Work, New York, 1885; H. Campbell, The Problem of the Poor; Record of quiet Work in unquiet Places, ib. 1882; Jerry McAuley, an Apostle to the Lost, 5th ed., ib., 1908 (by a number of writers).