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Thursday 22 August 1872
Yorkshire Street Convent, Burnley founded from Commercial Rd, London - Sr Angela Gilsenan.
SUBMIT A MERCY FACT)
Amalgamation of Wilcannia-Forbes communities - M Gertrude Gallagher
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Foundation to Adelaide, South Australia from Buenos Aires, Argentina - M Evangelista Fitzpatrick
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Foundation to New Inn, Co Tipperary from Charleville - M Joseph Croke
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Foundation to Seymour from Mansfield - M Agnes Ryan
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Foundation to Warrnambool, Victoria from Baggot St - M Philomena Maguire
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Foundation to Galway from Baggot St - M Teresa White
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St Katherine Drexel, Foundress of Sisters of Blessed Sacrament, began novitiate in Mercy convent, Pittsburgh
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Convent at Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire founded from Hull.
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Foundation to Rosscarbery from Skibbereen, Co Cork - M de Sales Dooner
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Foundation to Middletown, Connecticut from Ennis - M Agnes Healy
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Death of Sr Mairead Burke of Muhoroni Mission, Kenya from malaria.
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Building of St Mary's Convent Ponsonby, Motherhouse of the Sisters of Mercy Auckland is completed. Sisters still live and minister on the site.
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Sisters from Tralee began work in Fever Hospital, Listowel, Co Kerry
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Foundation to Loretto, Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh - M Catherine Wynne
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Death at Baggot St of first non-Irish Sister - M Gertrude Jones from Wales
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Foundation to Brisbane, Australia from Baggot St – M Vincent Whitty
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Final profession of first Irish Sisters
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Foundation to Brisbane, Queensland from Baggot St - M Vincent Whitty
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Opening of Meteor Park Orphanage, Rockhampton, Queensland
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Foundation to Tiffin (Toledo), Ohio from Cincinnati
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Death of M Berchmans Deane, Foundress of West Perth, Western Australia
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Foundation to Hartford, Connecticut from Providence, Rhode Island - M Frances Warde
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Foundation to Goodna, Queensland from Brisbane - M Scholastica McNamee