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Catherine Spalding
Elected leader of six women forming a new religious community, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Catherine Spalding, known as Mother Spalding, (December 23, 1793 – March 20, 1858) was an American educator who was a co-founder and longtime mother superior of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
She pioneered education, health services and social services for girls and orphans in Louisville and other Kentucky cities.
19 Chapter III Mother Catherine Spalding — Early life — Joins Sisterhood — Superior Kentucky Legislature grants charter to Nazareth — Community's first.
On January 6, 2003, the Louisville Courier-Journal named Spalding as the only woman among sixteen "most influential people in Louisville/Jefferson County history."[1]
Early life
Catherine Spalding was born on December 23, 1793, in Pomfret, Charles County, Maryland.
At age four, her family moved to Nelson County, Kentucky. Her mother died the next year and her father later deserted the children due to the stress of financial obligations. An uncle and aunt, Thomas and Elizabeth Spalding Elder, raised the five Spalding children with