Cornelia connelly biography of michael jackson

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 Catholicreligious institute.

Cornelia connelly biography of michael jackson

In 1846, she founded the first of many Holy Child schools, in England.

Connelly has been proposed for sainthood in the Catholic Church. In 1992, she was proclaimed as venerable by Pope John Paul II.

Early life

Cornelia Peacock was born in Philadelphia and raised a Presbyterian by her father, Ralph William Peacock Sr.

and mother, Mary Swope.^[1] With her father dying in 1818 and her mother dying in 1823, Peacock was left orphaned at the age of 14. She went to live with her half-sister Isabella and her husband, Austin Montgomery.^[2] In 1831 she was baptized into the Protestant Episcopal Church and, despite her family's protests, married the Reverend Pierce Connelly, an Episcopal priest.^[3] Cornelia had been well educated by