She founded a school in Belgium which became (in time) St Dominic's Sixth Form College in Harrow.
[1][2] Her eldest brother was Stuart Bathurst and he became a Church of England priest and rector of Kibworth Beauchamp in Leicestershire.
In 1850 Stuart converted to Catholicism under the influence of John Henry Newman and he became the parish priest at Wednesbury in Staffordshire.
Catherine also concerted to be a Catholic within months and she was given a Conditional baptism (to avoid giving two) by Father Brownbill SJ.
In July 1979 the convent school she founded closed and the remaining nuns transferred to the Dominican convent in Stone, Staffordshire,[3]St Dominic's Sixth Form College opened in the building that had been St Dominic's Independent Grammar School for girls.