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EUPHEMIA, mother superior of Sisters of Charity, born in Dublin, Ireland, 18 April 1816; died near Emmettsburg, Maryland, 18 March 1887. Her secular name was Catherine Blenkensoff. She immigrated to the United States in early girlhood, and entered the novitiate at St. Joseph's academy, near Emmettsburg, Maryland She rapidly rose to be principal teacher in the academy, and was soon afterward transferred to St. Mary's orphan asylum, Baltimore, and appointed mother superior. She was after several years returned to St. Joseph's, and chosen to the same place in that institution. At the end of the first three years of her direction she was appointed mother superior of all the Sisters of Charity in the United States. Mother Euphemia, as superior of her order, made a tour through the south in 1886, and arranged for the establishment of two branch houses.
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