To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best Born in Dublin on 20 March 1814, Georgiana Moore converted to Catholicism with her mother in 1823. Aged 14, she was employed by the founder of the Sisters of Mercy, Catherine McAuley, as a governess but was soon drawn by her House of Mercy, a refuge and school for impoverished female servants and children. Catherine’s original intention was to assemble a lay corps of Catholic social workers but when she formed the Sisters of Mercy, a religious community in Dublin, Georgiana was one of the first four women to join her, taking the name Mary Clare.Aged 23, Moore became superior of the Cork convent.