Clare Emma Whitty
Mother Mary Clare, CSP | |
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| Mother Superior of the Society of the Holy Cross | |
| Church | Church of Ireland |
| Installed | 1925 Rt Revd Mark Trollope, 3rd Bishop in Korea |
| Predecessor | newly created position |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 May 1883 Fenloe, County Clare, Ireland |
| Died | 6 November 1950 (aged 67) Chunggangjin, North Korea |
Mother Mary Clare (born Clare Emma Whitty; 30 May 1883 – 6 November 1950) was an Irish Anglican nun, missionary and botanist who died during a nine-day death march led by retreating North Korean soldiers during the Korean War.
She arrived in Korea in 1923, one of eighteen missionaries sent to the Korean peninsula by her nursing order, the Community of St Peter between 1892 and 1950. In 1925, following the founding of the Society of the Holy Cross by the Rt Revd Mark Trollope, the third Bishop in Korea, she was appointed Mother Superior of the order.