. Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue . erican. That exception had an unusually inter-esting life. Mrs. Judith McMahon had come to Ken-tucky from Ireland, with her husband, early in thetwenties. Haying no children and desirous of liyinga more perfect life, they determined on a separationand she entered the new foundation of Saint MaryMagdalen. There she receiyed the habit, but laterreturned to Ireland, hoping to enter one of the Domin-ican houses established in her natiye land. Not pos-sessing the req
. Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue . erican. That exception had an unusually inter-esting life. Mrs. Judith McMahon had come to Ken-tucky from Ireland, with her husband, early in thetwenties. Haying no children and desirous of liyinga more perfect life, they determined on a separationand she entered the new foundation of Saint MaryMagdalen. There she receiyed the habit, but laterreturned to Ireland, hoping to enter one of the Domin-ican houses established in her natiye land. Not pos-sessing the required dowry, she was unable to carryout her pious intention, and was then entrusted bythe Archbishop of Dublin, with the care of the Peni-tents Asylum, Townsend Street, Dublin. To facilitatethe granting of a dispensation to her husband, JohnMcMahon, in order that he might be promoted toHoly Orders, she made a yow of perpetual McMahon was ordained by Bishop Rosati onNoyember 20,1831, and labored with earnestness andsuccess in and around Galena, Illinois, where, onJune 19, 1833, he died of cholera contracted while. r,o The Foundation 45 ministering to his flock. Mrs. McMahon i>recede(lhim to the grave. Another to separate from the little band wasMolly Johnson, who remained only a short time inthe community. Only the barest record remains of the proceed-ings of that momentous occasion which launchedupon the stormy waters of time the frail barkof the American Third Order. Of those Ken-tucky maidens who, in the morning of life, did nothesitate to entriast themselves to so perilous a ven-ture, humanly considered, no account has come downto us. They were young, for rarely do any but theyouthful take hazards; they were quite possiblybeautiful; whatever wealth the frontier knew, theywere sharers of; it is not unlikely they had the besteducation the day afforded. Thus life opened beforethem, with its fair promise of love and happiness, andalwaj^s the dream of greater f
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