Catherine de hueck doherty biography definition
Catherine Doherty was a woman of deep faith who followed Christ in poverty and compassion.
DE HUECK DOHERTY, CATHERINE Pioneer among the Catholic laity in North America in implementing the social doctrine of the Church; b....
de Hueck Doherty, Catherine
Pioneer among the Catholic laity in North America in implementing the social doctrine of the Church; b.
Nijni-Novgorod (present Gorki), Russia, Aug. 15, 1896;d. Combermere, Ontario, Canada, Dec. 14, 1985. Foundress of Madonna House Apostolate, Combermere, and of friendship house in Canada and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.
The family lived in Ekaterinoslav (Russia), Alexandria (Egypt), India, and Paris before finally settling down in St.
Petersburg. Catherine's mother communicated to her an extraordinary faith in the presence of Christ in the poor.
Born in to a wealthy Russian family, Catherine de Hueck Doherty underwent the horrors of World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War.Though a communicant in the russian orthodox church, Catherine studied in the convent schools of the Sisters of Sion in both Alexandria and Paris. In 1912 Catherine married Boris de Hueck. World War I found them both with the 130th Division on the Western Front.
As a nurse she was decorated on several occasions for bravery. Escaping to Finland after the Revolution, she and Boris ran into Bolshevik
