Erie Hall of Fame | Mother Borgia Egan | 2010

Catherine Egan was born on the feast day of Saint Benedict, the patron saint of students. She was a teacher and an advocate for the higher education of women.

Her dream was to open a college for women, which she did by first sending her "Pioneer" Sisters of Mercy to college, raising the money for the new school, buying land and opening the doors to both Mercyhurst Preparatory School and Mercyhurst College and seminary in 1926.

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