Cornelia Connelly

Venerable

Cornelia Connelly

SHCJ
Mother Cornelia Connelly, ca. 1877.
BornCornelia Peacock
(1809-01-15)15 January 1809
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died18 April 1879(1879-04-18) (aged 70)
St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England

Cornelia Connelly, SHCJ (née Cornelia Peacock; January 15, 1809 – April 18, 1879) was an American-born educator who was the foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1846, she founded the first of many Holy Child schools in England. A beatification process for Connelly has been opened. In 1992, she was proclaimed as venerable by Pope John Paul II.

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