Catherine Doherty
Catherine was born Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine, on August 15, 1896, to Fyodor and Emma Thomson Kolyschkine, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire. She was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church. Schooled abroad because of her father's work, she and her family returned to st. Petersburg in 1910, where she was enrolled in the prestigious Princess Obolensky Academy.
In 1912, aged 15, she married her first cousin, Baron Boris de Hueck (1889–1947). At the outbreak of World War I, Baroness de Hueck became a Red Cross nurse at the front, experiencing the horrors of battle firsthand. On her return to St Petersburg, she and Boris barely escaped the turmoil of the Russian Revolution with their lives, nearly starving to death as refugees in Finland. Together they made their way to England, where Catherine was received into the Roman Catholic Church on November 27, 1919.
Emigrating to Canada with Boris, de Hueck gave birth to their only child, George, in Toronto in 1921. To make ends meet, she took various jobs, eventually becoming a lecturer, travelling across North America. In 1943, having received an annulment of her first marriage, as she had married her cousin, which is forbidden in the Roman Catholic Church, she married Eddie Doherty, one of America's foremost reporters, who had fallen in love with her while writing a story about her apostolate of "Friendship House" in Harlem.
Catherine and Eddie moved to Combermere, Ontario, on May 17, 1947, naming their new rural apostolate Madonna House. This was to be the seedbed of an apostolate that, in the year 2000, numbered more than 200 staff workers and over 125 associate priests, deacons, and bishops, with 22 missionary field-houses throughout the world. died on December 14, 1985, in Combermere at the age of 89.
Catherine Doherty's cause for canonization as a saint was opened by Pope John Paul II in 2000, and she has been given the official title Servant of God — the first step on the way to being declared Venerable, then Blessed, and finally Saint.
Catherine was born Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine, on August 15, 1896, to Fyodor and Emma Thomson Kolyschkine, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire. She was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church. Schooled abroad because of her father's work, she and her family returned to st. Petersburg in 1910, where she was enrolled in the prestigious Princess Obolensky Academy.
In 1912, aged 15, she married her first cousin, Baron Boris de Hueck (1889–1947). At the outbreak of World War I, Baroness de Hueck became a Red Cross nurse at the front, experiencing the horrors of battle firsthand. On her return to St Petersburg, she and Boris barely escaped the turmoil of the Russian Revolution with their lives, nearly starving to death as refugees in Finland. Together they made their way to England, where Catherine was received into the Roman Catholic Church on November 27, 1919.
Emigrating to Canada with Boris, de Hueck gave birth to their only child, George, in Toronto in 1921. To make ends meet, she took various jobs, eventually becoming a lecturer, travelling across North America. In 1943, having received an annulment of her first marriage, as she had married her cousin, which is forbidden in the Roman Catholic Church, she married Eddie Doherty, one of America's foremost reporters, who had fallen in love with her while writing a story about her apostolate of "Friendship House" in Harlem.
Catherine and Eddie moved to Combermere, Ontario, on May 17, 1947, naming their new rural apostolate Madonna House. This was to be the seedbed of an apostolate that, in the year 2000, numbered more than 200 staff workers and over 125 associate priests, deacons, and bishops, with 22 missionary field-houses throughout the world. died on December 14, 1985, in Combermere at the age of 89.
Catherine Doherty's cause for canonization as a saint was opened by Pope John Paul II in 2000, and she has been given the official title Servant of God — the first step on the way to being declared Venerable, then Blessed, and finally Saint.
Catherine Doherty
Catherine was born Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine, on August 15, 1896, to Fyodor and Emma Thomson Kolyschkine, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire. She was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church. Schooled abroad because of her father's work, she and her family returned to st. Petersburg in 1910, where she was enrolled in the prestigious Princess Obolensky Academy.
In 1912, aged 15, she married her first cousin, Baron Boris de Hueck (1889–1947). At the outbreak of World War I, Baroness de Hueck became a Red Cross nurse at the front, experiencing the horrors of battle firsthand. On her return to St Petersburg, she and Boris barely escaped the turmoil of the Russian Revolution with their lives, nearly starving to death as refugees in Finland. Together they made their way to England, where Catherine was received into the Roman Catholic Church on November 27, 1919.
Emigrating to Canada with Boris, de Hueck gave birth to their only child, George, in Toronto in 1921. To make ends meet, she took various jobs, eventually becoming a lecturer, travelling across North America. In 1943, having received an annulment of her first marriage, as she had married her cousin, which is forbidden in the Roman Catholic Church, she married Eddie Doherty, one of America's foremost reporters, who had fallen in love with her while writing a story about her apostolate of "Friendship House" in Harlem.
Catherine and Eddie moved to Combermere, Ontario, on May 17, 1947, naming their new rural apostolate Madonna House. This was to be the seedbed of an apostolate that, in the year 2000, numbered more than 200 staff workers and over 125 associate priests, deacons, and bishops, with 22 missionary field-houses throughout the world. died on December 14, 1985, in Combermere at the age of 89.
Catherine Doherty's cause for canonization as a saint was opened by Pope John Paul II in 2000, and she has been given the official title Servant of God — the first step on the way to being declared Venerable, then Blessed, and finally Saint.
Catherine was born Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine, on August 15, 1896, to Fyodor and Emma Thomson Kolyschkine, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire. She was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church. Schooled abroad because of her father's work, she and her family returned to st. Petersburg in 1910, where she was enrolled in the prestigious Princess Obolensky Academy.
In 1912, aged 15, she married her first cousin, Baron Boris de Hueck (1889–1947). At the outbreak of World War I, Baroness de Hueck became a Red Cross nurse at the front, experiencing the horrors of battle firsthand. On her return to St Petersburg, she and Boris barely escaped the turmoil of the Russian Revolution with their lives, nearly starving to death as refugees in Finland. Together they made their way to England, where Catherine was received into the Roman Catholic Church on November 27, 1919.
Emigrating to Canada with Boris, de Hueck gave birth to their only child, George, in Toronto in 1921. To make ends meet, she took various jobs, eventually becoming a lecturer, travelling across North America. In 1943, having received an annulment of her first marriage, as she had married her cousin, which is forbidden in the Roman Catholic Church, she married Eddie Doherty, one of America's foremost reporters, who had fallen in love with her while writing a story about her apostolate of "Friendship House" in Harlem.
Catherine and Eddie moved to Combermere, Ontario, on May 17, 1947, naming their new rural apostolate Madonna House. This was to be the seedbed of an apostolate that, in the year 2000, numbered more than 200 staff workers and over 125 associate priests, deacons, and bishops, with 22 missionary field-houses throughout the world. died on December 14, 1985, in Combermere at the age of 89.
Catherine Doherty's cause for canonization as a saint was opened by Pope John Paul II in 2000, and she has been given the official title Servant of God — the first step on the way to being declared Venerable, then Blessed, and finally Saint.
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