
Thursday 16 July 1959
12 Sisters from Brooklyn arrive in Panama to begin their work
SUBMIT A MERCY FACT
Foundation to Broken Hill from Singleton - M Josephine Callen

Mission from Grafton to Torembi, Papua New Guinea

Foundation to Ballinrobe from Westport, Co Mayo - M Gertrude O'Brien.

Foundation to Portland Sq, Bristol from Bermondsey - Sr Francis Beauchamp.

Groundbreaking ceremony for new 75-bed south wing of St Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Foundation to Frinton, Essex from Chelsea, London - Sr Gerard Collins.

Opening of St Vincent's Home, Nudgee, Queensland - M Vincent Whitty

Establishment of Federation of Sisters of Mercy

M Aloysius Scott professed Baggot St (Foundress of Birr; died there 1844)

Margaret O'Brien, Sr M Agatha, second woman received in Americas

Re-opening of St Mary's Hospital, San Francisco after 1906 earthquake

Death of Sr Elizabeth Butler from Liverpool of typhoid in Balaclava Hospital, Crimea.

Colaiste Ide, Dingle, Co Kerry, staffed from Balloonagh Tralee

Foundation to Falls River, Massachusetts from Providence, Rhode Island - M Rose Brannigan

M Elizabeth Butler (Baggot St) died in the Crimea

Foundation to Buenos Aires, Argentina from Baggot St - M Evangelista Fitzpatrick

William McAuley, Catherine's nephew, married Jessie Tomkins, Colac

The Sister Mary Hanrahan Arts Faculty Building is opened at Villa Maria College, Christchurch. It is named for Mary Hanrahan rsm, Principal of the College for 20 years.

Sisters take charge of Illinois General Hospital

M Clare Augustine Moore professed at Baggot St

Yorkshire Street, Burnley closed and Stephenson Drive convent opened.

Establishment of Mercy Teachers College, Ascot Vale - M Patricia O'Neill

Original Pugin designed convent in Bermondsey destroyed by bomb.

Death of M Ignatius Croke, Foundress of Bathhurst, from Charleville