Saturday 25 March 2000
Sr M Michael Bell began Youth Mercy Associates in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
SUBMIT A MERCY FACT
April 26, 1813
Birth of Juliana Hardman, first Superior of St Mary's Convent, Handsworth.
April 27, 1847
First profession in New York - M Vincent Haire (Foundress, Brooklyn 1855)
April 28, 1973
Union of Sisters of Mercy, Kerry - M Philomena Harrington
April 28, 1878
Foundation to Kinvara Co Clare
April 29, 1945
Opening of Mercy Hospital, Albury, New South Wales - M Hugh Berrell
April 29, 1841
Death of Catherine's nephew, James McAuley
April 29, 1841
Foundation to Gympie, Queensland from Brisbane - M Stanislaus
April 30, 1917
Death of M Regis Murray, Foundress of Reefton
April 30, 1867
Foundation to Ballyshannon from Kinsale - M Ignatius Joseph McCarthy
May 01, 1855
Foundation to Kilrush from Birr - M Anastasia Beckett/M Vincent Egan
May 01, 1880
Foundation to Jamaica, West Indies from Cincinnatti
May 01, 1843
School opened at St John's, Newfoundland
May 01, 1862
Foundation to Clara, Co Offaly from Tullamore - M Gertrude Dunne
May 01, 1847
Sr Bernard Dickson entered Bermondsey Convent, London. She ministered in Chelsea, the Crimea and NZ
May 02, 2000
Trinity Health, Novi, Michigan, was launched when the Sisters of the Holy Cross and the Sisters of Mercy Regional Community of Detroit joined their health care ministries.
May 02, 1883
Foundation to Sheffield from Commercial Rd, East London - Sr Scholastica McDonald.
May 03, 1871
Foundation to Carndonough from Derry, Northern Ireland
May 03, 1848
Opening of first permanent Mercy convent in Australia - Perth, Western Australia
May 03, 1935
Swanage Convent, Dorset founded from Hull - Sr Anastasia O'Hara
May 03, 1880
Foundation to Adelaide, South Australia from Buenos Aires, Argentina - M Evangelista Fitzpatrick
May 03, 1932
Amalgamation of Wilcannia-Forbes communities - M Gertrude Gallagher
May 04, 1879
Foundation to New Inn, Co Tipperary from Charleville - M Joseph Croke
May 05, 1890
Death of M Anne Xavier Dillon, foundation member Perth/Melbourne
May 05, 1900
Foundation to Seymour from Mansfield - M Agnes Ryan