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Spalding, Catherine

first superior of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, was born Dec. 23, 1793, in Charles county, Md.

In 1819 she sent a colony of sisters to Bardstown, who established the Bethlehem Day school, and in 1820 St. Vincent convent was founded in Union county.

She opened St. Catherine's school in Scott county in 1823. It was afterward removed to Lexington, where it still exists, and is regarded as one of the community's most flourishing establishments. The Academy of the Presentation was opened in Louisville in 1831, of which Mother Spalding took personal charge. She died March 20, 1858, in Louisville, Ky.