Thursday 08 February 1979
Mission to King Island from Melbourne - M Camillus O'Kane
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March 19, 1908Foundation to Romford, Essex from Brentwood, Essex.
March 19, 1895Groundbreaking ceremonies for St Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
March 19, 1873St Joseph Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetss - M Borgia Douglas
March 20, 1871Foundation to Ennistymon from Gort, Co Galway
March 20, 1993Profession of Elizabeth Mun Barrantes, first Peruvian Sister to enter Pittburgh community
March 20, 1890Profession of first Sister in Gunnedah, M Berchmans Smart
March 22, 1966Provincialate and novitiate moved from Detroit to Farmington Hills, Michigan
March 22, 1855St Xavier Convent, Providence attacked by Know-Nothings
March 24, 1884Death of Mother Juliana Hardman, first Superior of St Mary's Convent, Handsworth
Read More March 24, 1835Convent opened at Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) for Sisters to convalesce
March 24, 1853Foundation to Ballinasloe from Loughrea - M Bernard Maguire/M Magdalen Bourke
March 25, 2000Sister Patricia Bell founded Youth Mercy Associates, North Shields, England
March 25, 2000Sr M Michael Bell began Youth Mercy Associates in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
March 25, 1843Sister 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.
Read More March 25, 1935Opening of Mercy Hospital, Melbourne - M Frances Hanigan
March 27, 1922Amalgamation of New Mexico/Arizona, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco to form Burlingame community
March 27, 1957Foundation to Phillipines from Buffalo - M Vincent Vossler
March 28, 1869Foundation to St Alphonsus, New Orleans from St Louis
March 29, 1978Inauguration of Aged Care Services by Perth Congregation
March 29, 1869Independence, Iowa founded from Davenport - M Francis Monholland
March 30, 1956Foundation to Nairobi from Dublin - M Imelda Collins
March 31, 2000150 years of education on the site of St Mary's College Wellington was celebrated.
April 01, 1949Newfoundland became 10th Province of Canada - 200 "first Mercy Sisters in Canada"