Catherine Booth-Clibborn

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Catherine "Katie" Booth-Clibborn (born September 18, 1858 in Gateshead as Catherine Booth ; † May 9, 1955 ) was a British officer in the Salvation Army . She was the eldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth . She was also known by the name of la Maréchale , the marshal.

Life

childhood

Booth was born in Gateshead in 1858, where her father was a pastor. During her childhood she was particularly close to her father's secretary, George Scott Railton , who lived with the Booth family for ten years and served them as a spiritual mentor. She was confirmed when she was thirteen. In 1876, when she was fifteen, she and her father, William , preached at the annual East London Cristian Mission conference .

Salvation Army officer

In March 1891 she began to establish the Salvation Army in France. As a captain, she was subordinate to two lieutenants who helped her preach the Gospel in Paris . One of them was Florence Soper , who later married Kathie's brother Bramwell Booth . The three Salvation Army members carried sandwich boards when the police forbade them to distribute leaflets. You weren't well received. Their sermons on street corners were often interrupted by people throwing mud and stones at them. After repeated attempts by men to strangle them with their own hatbands, instead of sewing them on, they fastened them with needles. They moved into rented apartments where prostitutes lived in poor conditions. Progress was slow. Resistance to the missionary work of the Salvation Army was fierce, and converts had a difficult time and sometimes lost their jobs. The newspaper reports about her in France were almost unanimously critical.

Eventually Booth-Clibborn moved to Switzerland, where the resistance against the Salvation Army was even stronger. The authorities forbade her to rent halls for her sermons. She was arrested, tried, sentenced and expelled for holding an open-air meeting near Neuchâtel .

The Booth-Clibborn family around 1900

Kathie Booth married Arthur Clibborn on February 18, 1887 at the age of 28 . The press reported it and found that at least 6,000 people were in attendance at the wedding. Kathie and Arthur decided, against their father's resistance, that they would be called Booth-Clibborn. Kathie and Arthur had a total of ten children, including the Pentecostal preacher William Booth-Clibborn . After the birth of their tenth child in January 1902, the family withdrew from the Salvation Army because they were dissatisfied with the military style. At her husband's request, Kathie, Arthur and the ten children traveled to see the cult leader John Alexander Dowie in Zion City , a township about 40 miles north of Chicago . Kathie Booth-Clibborn did not believe Dowie's grandiose claims - he proclaimed himself the returned prophet Elijah in 1901 and the first apostle of Jesus Christ in 1904 - and felt offended by his criticism of her father, despite her own family and had alienated the Salvation Army. For the rest of her life, she had almost no contact with her father and the siblings who remained in the Salvation Army.

Later years

After joining Pentecostalism in 1906 , the Booth-Clibborn family continued to preach. Family members spent the rest of their lives spreading the gospel as traveling evangelists in Europe , the United States, and Australia . The Salvation Army's Kathie Booth House for Women and Children Fleeing Violence, located in Vancouver in the province of British Columbia in Canada, was named after her .

After her death at the age of 97 from double pneumonia in 1955, she was buried in Highgate Cemetery . Because of her previous argument with her father and siblings, she did not want to be buried next to her parents and siblings in Abney Park Cemetery .

Her grandson Stanley Eric Francis Booth-Clibborn became the Anglican Bishop of Manchester .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c L. E. Lauer: Clibborn, Catherine Booth- (1858–1955). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004, online edn, October 2006 , accessed May 26, 2010
  2. ↑ Catherine Booth-Clibborn on The Salvation Army International Heritage Center website ( Memento from February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ News from the Past 1805-1887: The Autobiography of the Nineteenth Century. Edited and compiled by Yvonne French. New York: Viking Press.
  4. ↑ The Booth-Clibborns on the Pentecostal Pacifism website ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pentecostalpacifism.com
  5. ^ Catherine Booth-Clibborn on the Find-A-Grave website
personal data
SURNAME Booth-Clibborn, Catherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Booth-Clibborn, Katie (nickname); Booth, Catherine (maiden name); La Marshalin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Salvation Army officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Gateshead
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1955