Brigid McCrory, the future Mother Angeline Teresa was born in Ireland in 1893. When she was a young girl her family moved to Scotland. Brigid came to know the Little Sisters of the Poor and entered that congregation at the age of nineteen, traveling to France for her religious formation. The Little Sisters then sent Sr. Angeline of St. Agathe to the United States to work in one of their Brooklyn homes. Eventually Sr. Angeline became the superior/administrator of a nursing home in the Bronx and came to believe that the French based community should adapt more to American ways. Mother believed that there were all kinds of poverty, not just financial, and elderly people of all economic status should be cared for in a loving environment. Mother believed in keeping married couples together, not separating them to male and female dormitories, and indeed, that each resident should have a little space of his/her own. Hospitality was and is central to each home established by Mother Angeline and her Sisters.