On This Day

December 11, 1994

Rededication of Motherhouse after destruction by fire - Albany

December 11, 1988

Opening of Spiritual Life Centre, Auckland - Patricia Hook

December 12, 1936

Foundation to Clevedon from Westbury-on-Trym (Bristol, UK) by Mother Anthony Daly

December 12, 2011

Establishment and first day of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea

December 12, 1900

Aotearoa New Zealand's first Mater Misericordiae Hospital is opened in Epsom, Auckland - M Ignatius Prendergast.

December 12, 2005

The four Congregations of Aotearoa New Zealand unite to become a single Congregation – Nga Whaea Atawhai o Aotearoa Sisters of Mercy New Zealand.

December 12, 1831

Foundation Day; Profession of Catherine McAuley, Mary Ann Doyle and Elizabeth Harley

December 12, 1867

Foundation to Trim from Tullamore - M Alphonsus Kavanagh

December 12, 1839

First public clothing ceremony in Bermondsey - Lady Barbara Eyre one of the entrants.

December 12, 1890

Foundation to Kingston, West Indies from Bermondsey, England - M Winifred Furlong

December 12, 1980

Opening of Novitiate in Americas from Brooklyn, New York

December 13, 1979

Reception of first Honduran Sisters, San Pedro - Sula, Honduras

December 14, 1874

Death in Bermondsey of Foundress M Clare Moore

December 15, 1915

Opening of Mercy Hospital, Mason City

December 15, 1840

M Rose Lynch professed, Baggot St

December 15, 1981

Establishment of Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia (ISMA) - First President, Dorothy Campion

December 15, 1902

Sisters began work in Corofin Workhouse, Co Clare

December 16, 1977

Opening of Mercy Family Centre, Waitara, Sydney

December 16, 1985

Opening of Mercy Hospice Care, Melbourne - Margaret Ryan

December 17, 1939

Opening of convent at Sans Souci, New South Wales from Broken Hill

December 18, 1883

Foundation to Clonmel from Cahir, Co Tipperary - M Bernard Vaughan

December 19, 1914

Death of M Liguori Keenan at Carysfort, which she had purchased, Co Dublin

December 20, 1859

M Agnes O'Connor, Foundress died, New York

December 21, 1843

Foundation to Pittsburgh from Carlow M Frances Warde