Mercy Facts for the rest of this week...

Saturday, 14 March 1992
Final profession of Angelina Mitre, first in the Americas

Thursday, 15 March 1894
Death of M Baptist MacDonnell, Buenos Aires (refounded there from Australia 1890)

Saturday, 15 March 1947
Candidates accepted for South Africa

Thursday, 16 March 1911
Foundation to Aurora, Illinois from Council Bluffs - M Magdalene Bennett

Thursday, 16 March 1922
Independence and Dubuque unite, Motherhouse at Dubuque, Iowa

Tuesday, 17 March 1857
Opening of Mercy Hospital, Cork - the first in Ireland

Sunday, 17 March 1912
New Boys' Orphanage, Goulburn - M Benignus Bowe St Johns

Sunday, 18 March 2007
Te Korowai Atawhai Mercy Hospice Auckland is officially opened on its new site in Ponsonby.