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Search - Biographical Sketch Of Mother Margaret Mary Hallahan

Biographical Sketch Of Mother Margaret Mary Hallahan
Author: Various

1871. - CONTENTS. - CHAP PAGE I. UIRTII AYD EARLY TEARS, 6 1 11. LIFl. IX BELGIUJI, . 15 IV. COM31ESCEJIEST OF A IIELIGIOCS CUMJlCXITY, . . 61 VI. CI.TFTOJ, . 8s VII. FOLSD.TION AT LOSGTOX, . . 101 IS. IIER F.IITII A DEVOTION, . . 1-34 S. COJIJIUSIIY LIFE- -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH A NOTHER MARGARET HALLAHAN. MARGARET CHAPTER I. BZR TH AND EARLY ... more »YBARS. HALLAHAN was born in London, of Irish Catholic parents, on the 23d of January 1803. Her father, Edmund Hallrthan, belonged to a family whic.h occupied a respectable position in society, but, owing to a long series of misfortunes, he himself had sunk in life, and found himself at length obliged to maintain his family by humble labour. The maiden name of his wife was Catherine OConnor her family were all pious Catholics, and one of them, Father John OConnor, was a Dominican, and lived to an advanced age in the conveilt at Cork. Margaret was their only child, and the idol of her father, of whose indulgent affection she always retained a lively remembrance. She inherited the warm religious instincts of her mother, and manifested them wit11 a certain childish impetuosity, prostrating and putting her forehead to the ground in prayer, and indulging in other exterior demonstrations of piety, which sometimes drew from her mother the warning words, c Little saints make big sinners. Her education began at the school established at Somers Town by the celebrated emig7S priest, the Abbe Carron. Here she attended as a day-scholar. and one of her earliest recollections was the affection with which her father was accustomed every day to meet her on her return from school, always bringing her a little calre, or some similar present. Few as are the anecdotes that have been preserved of her child- hood, they are not a little characteristic. She was only eight years old when the Jubilee of King George 111. was celebrated, oil vhieh occasioll her parents took her to St Jamess Palace, which on that day was thrown open to the public. Most of the visitors who thronged the royal apartments satisfied their loyalty and their curiosity in a truly English manner, by sitting in the kings chair, but when Mrtrgaret was invited to do the same, she stoutly refused, though her mother persisted, and afterwards punished her for her refusal, which arose, as she afterwards ex- plained, from a certain feeling that it was only a sham sort of honour, which she could not endure. Moreover, the grandeur of the state apartments did not greatly affect her they fell far short of what her lively imagination had pictured as worthy of a kings palace, for at eight years old the child ofpoverty had already within her ideas of lofty magnificeace which were not easily satisfied. Her passionate temper was at that age under little restraint, ancl on the evening of the same popular holiday, she described herself as dancing about in a passion, and pulling her lair, because her parents refused to take her out to see the illuminations. Her fathers death took place in the year foI1o.tving this little incident. Her mother being now left in yet more embarrassed circumstances, the Reverend hTr Hunt, a charitable priest of IkIoorfields, procured t,he admission of the child into the Orphanage attached to the Somers Town establishment, where she remained until her mothers death. The whole period of her school-life did not exceed three years, and closed when she was but nine years of age. By that time she had gained the remarkable skill as a reader which she retained through life but in other respects her school-training mas very imperfect...

ISBN-13: 9781408609347
ISBN-10: 1408609347
Publication Date: 10/26/2007
Pages: 256
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