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4 unusual facts about Margaret Hallahan


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Margaret Hallahan (born 1803), English Catholic nun, foundress of the Dominican Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena

Margaret Hallahan

She was sent to an orphanage at Somers Town for two years, and then at the age of eleven went out to service, in which state of life she remained a for nearly thirty years.

From Coventry the community moved to Bristol, where several schools were placed under their charge, from there they went to Longton, the last of the pottery towns in Staffordshire.

She became a Dominican tertiary in 1842, and then came to England, proceeding to Coventry where she worked under William Bernard Ullathorne, afterwards Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, among the factory girls.



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