
Thursday 08 February 1979
Mission to King Island from Melbourne - M Camillus O'Kane
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Foundation to Romford, Essex from Brentwood, Essex.

Groundbreaking ceremonies for St Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona

St Joseph Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetss - M Borgia Douglas

Foundation to Ennistymon from Gort, Co Galway

Profession of Elizabeth Mun Barrantes, first Peruvian Sister to enter Pittburgh community

Profession of first Sister in Gunnedah, M Berchmans Smart

Provincialate and novitiate moved from Detroit to Farmington Hills, Michigan

St Xavier Convent, Providence attacked by Know-Nothings

Death of Mother Juliana Hardman, first Superior of St Mary's Convent, Handsworth
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Convent opened at Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) for Sisters to convalesce

Foundation to Ballinasloe from Loughrea - M Bernard Maguire/M Magdalen Bourke

Sister Patricia Bell founded Youth Mercy Associates, North Shields, England

Sr M Michael Bell began Youth Mercy Associates in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Sister Mary Joseph Nugent, received 1842, professed March 25, 1843, St. John’s, Newfoundland. She is the first Sister of Mercy received and professed outside the British Isles and in the Americas.
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Opening of Mercy Hospital, Melbourne - M Frances Hanigan

Amalgamation of New Mexico/Arizona, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco to form Burlingame community

Foundation to Phillipines from Buffalo - M Vincent Vossler

Foundation to St Alphonsus, New Orleans from St Louis

Inauguration of Aged Care Services by Perth Congregation

Independence, Iowa founded from Davenport - M Francis Monholland

Foundation to Nairobi from Dublin - M Imelda Collins

150 years of education on the site of St Mary's College Wellington was celebrated.

Newfoundland became 10th Province of Canada - 200 "first Mercy Sisters in Canada"