There are two primary theories as to what causes dry drowning, and it may well be that both are correct and that this form of death can be brought on in two different ways. The first theory is that a sudden rush of water into the throat causes the airway to snap shut, a condition known as a laryngospasm.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 27 August 1910, in  Skopje, Macedonia. When she was just 17, she joined the Sisters of  Our Lady of Lareto, a Catholic order â¦ that did charity work in  India.
Australian Dictionary of Biography. Ursula Frayne (1816-1885), mother superior, was born on 5 October 1816 in Dublin, Ireland, daughter of Robert Frayne, a prosperous businessman, and his wife Bridget.ustralian Women's Register. In 1845, Ursula Frayne, along with five other Sisters of Mercy and one postulant, sailed for Western Australia with the goal, among other things, of establishing the first Mercy school in Australia. This they did on 2 February, 1846, with planks, bricks and packing cases as furniture.