Career
She was a native of Dublin. Whitty entered Saint Catherine"s Convent, Sion Hill, Blackrock, Company Dublin, in her nineteenth year, 25 March 1849.
Seventeen years later, at the request of Bishop Patrick Moran, who then had charge of the Eastern Vicariate of South Africa, she with five others began their work at Portuguese Elizabeth, 23 November 1867.
She served for 25 years as prioress of Rosemary Convent, which she had founded. Whitty"s good health continued till within a month or two of her death in her 80th year.
With every mark of public veneration her remains were laid to rest in the convent cemetery of Emerald Hill Priory, one of the convents which she had founded, on 6 May 1911.
