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Wednesday 18 April 1906
St Mary's Hospital, San Francisco destroyed in earthquake and fire
SUBMIT A MERCY FACT May 06, 1889St Katherine Drexel, Foundress of Sisters of Blessed Sacrament, began novitiate in Mercy convent, Pittsburgh
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May 06, 1840Foundation to Galway from Baggot St - M Teresa White
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May 06, 1872Foundation to Warrnambool, Victoria from Baggot St - M Philomena Maguire
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May 07, 1904Convent at Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire founded from Hull.
May 07, 1894Foundation to Rosscarbery from Skibbereen, Co Cork - M de Sales Dooner
May 07, 1872Foundation to Middletown, Connecticut from Ennis - M Agnes Healy
May 08, 2003Death of Sr Mairead Burke of Muhoroni Mission, Kenya from malaria.
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May 08, 1862Building of St Mary's Convent Ponsonby, Motherhouse of the Sisters of Mercy Auckland is completed. Sisters still live and minister on the site.
May 08, 1848Foundation to Loretto, Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh - M Catherine Wynne
May 08, 1883Sisters from Tralee began work in Fever Hospital, Listowel, Co Kerry
May 09, 1839Death at Baggot St of first non-Irish Sister - M Gertrude Jones from Wales
May 10, 1861Final profession of first Irish Sisters
May 10, 1861Foundation to Brisbane, Australia from Baggot St – M Vincent Whitty
May 10, 1861Foundation to Brisbane, Queensland from Baggot St - M Vincent Whitty
May 11, 1928Death of M Berchmans Deane, Foundress of West Perth, Western Australia
May 11, 1912Foundation to Tiffin (Toledo), Ohio from Cincinnati
May 11, 1885Opening of Meteor Park Orphanage, Rockhampton, Queensland
May 11, 1852Foundation to Hartford, Connecticut from Providence, Rhode Island - M Frances Warde
May 12, 1911Foundation to Goodna, Queensland from Brisbane - M Scholastica McNamee
May 12, 1880Foundation to Mt Gambier from Adelaide - M Baptist McDonnell
May 12, 1852Foundation to New Haven, Connecticut From Rhode Island - M Camillus Byrn (Catherine's god-child)
May 13, 1887Death of Mother Angela Gilsenan, Foundress of Barnsley, South Yorkshire
May 13, 1864Marble altar at Baggot St consecrated by Bishop Quinn, Bathurst (Australia)