Welcome back to Holy Donors as we continue our story about Catherine Doherty’s life and legacy. In this episode, our hosts, Rhen, Thaddeus, and Matt, share about the later years in Catherine’s life, and they wrap up the episode with Thaddeus sharing that Catherine is one of the most “amazing public Catholics that I’ve never heard of.”

We return to Catherine’s story as she and her new husband Eddie are pushed out of the Harlem Friendship House. Looking for a change in scenery, the couple moved to a small, rural town in Canada called Combermere. As they did in Harlem, Catherine and Eddie lived in relative poverty and begged for their necessities. They wrote letters to friends and acquaintances around the world asking for both funds and goods, for themselves and for their new ministry.

Catherine and Eddie started Madonna House in Combermere, and thus, Catherine established the final of her three main apostolates. Catherine still directly served those in need in her community, and she and Eddie also opened Madonna House as a retreat for people needing a quiet place to pray and listen to God. Catherine served her community with passion and diligence until her death in 1985.

To close the episode, our hosts share their thoughts on whether or not Catherine Doherty deserves to make their list of holy donors. Unsurprisingly, Rhen, Matt, and Thaddeus all agree that Catherine absolutely meets their metrics of holiness as based on faithfulness, humility and radical generosity.

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Recommended reading:

"Fragments of my Life" by Catherine Doherty
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