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{{Short description|Religious order founder; Servant of God (1896–1985)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}} {{Infobox saint |honorific_prefix= [[Servant of God]] |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|size=100%)}} |name =Catherine Doherty |image =Catherine Doherty 1970.jpg |image_size = |caption =Doherty in 1970 |titles = |birth_name =Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine<br> (in Russian: Екатерина Фёдоровна Колышкина) |birth_date ={{birth date|1896|8|15|df=yes}} |birth_place =[[Nizhny Novgorod]], [[Russian Empire|Russia]] |death_date ={{death date and age|1985|12|14|1896|8|15|df=yes}} |death_place =[[Combermere, Ontario]], Canada |feast_day = |venerated_in = |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by = |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by = |attributes = |patronage = |major_shrine = }} '''Catherine de Hueck Doherty''' (née '''Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina'''; August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985) was a Russian-born [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] activist who founded the [[Madonna House Apostolate]] in 1947. She was a pioneer in the struggle for interracial justice, spiritual writer, lecturer, and spiritual mother to priests and laity.<ref name=":0">Gugliemi, 11</ref><ref>Gugliemi, Donald, ''Staritsa: the Spiritual Maternity of Catherine de Hueck Doherty'', Dissertation (Rome:Pontificiam Universitatem S. thomae, 2003), 1</ref> She was born in [[Russian Empire|Russia]] to wealthy parents and came to [[Canada]] after escaping the [[Russian Revolution]]. During the [[Great Depression]], she founded Friendship House, which served the poor in Toronto. After its closure, she opened Friendship House in [[Harlem|Harlem, New York]], in 1938, serving the needs of the [[African Americans|black]] community there. In 1947, Catherine and her second husband, Irish American journalist [[Eddie Doherty]], moved to the village of [[Combermere, Ontario]], where the Madonna House Apostolate, a Catholic community of laymen, laywomen, and priests, developed and flourished. Among her more than thirty books,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Works by Catherine Doherty |url=https://www.madonnahouse.org/publications/}}</ref> many of which blended a profound spirituality of [[Eastern Christianity|East]] and [[Western Christianity|West]],<ref>Gugliemi, 283-4</ref> was the spiritual classic ''Poustinia.'' "A woman in love with God,"<ref>Gugliemi, 14</ref> she strived and taught others to live the Gospel without compromise.<ref name=":0" /> Doherty's cause for [[beatification]] has been introduced in 2000, granting her the title [[Servant of God]].<ref>[https://www.catholicireland.net/servant-of-god-catherine-de-hueck-doherty/ Servant of God: Catherine de Hueck Doherty]</ref>
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