Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory  Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, O.Carm., (21 January 1893 – 21 January 1984), was an Ulster-born immigrant to the United States. She was a Roman Catholic religious sister who worked as an advocate for the impoverished elderly, founding a new religious congregation for this purpose, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm. Her cause for canonization has been opened, and her life has been acknowledged by the Holy See as one of heroic virtue. She is honored by the Catholic Church as venerable. Venerable Mother Angeline was born in the Townland of Clintycracken into an Irish family who were very devote Roman Catholics. She was baptized Brigid Teresa McCrory in The Chapel of St. Brigid at Brockagh very near the ruins of Mountjoy Castle, in the County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, still part of the United Kingdom. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Scotland and settled in Mossend, moving into a house beside Holy Family Church. It was there in Mossend under the direction of Rev. Dean Cronin that the young Bridget McCrory began to receive her calling to the religious life. She found herself attracted to the life of the Sisters who came begging alms for the aged and infirm men and woman in their care. At the age of 9 or 10 on her own she changed the spelling of her name from Brigid to Bridget due in part to her love of the French language. Bridget would often help the parish priest of Holy Family Mossend, Rev. Dean Cronin, by arranging the flowers that were always placed on the High Altar. Before she left for her train heading to France, she visited him. He gave her his blessing and told her to pick any book from his collection in the parish house. Closing her eyes she picked ‘The life of St. Teresa of Avila’. Only years later would she realise the significance of this moment as, like St. Teresa, she became a foundress in the Carmel Family. In 1912 at the age of nineteen after spending 12 years in Mossend, she left home to join the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic religious congregation engaged in the care of the destitute aged. She made her Novitiate in La Tour, France, where she took the religious name of Sister Angeline de St. Agatha, and after her Profession she was sent to the United States, arriving the 1st of November 1915.