Thursday 22 August 1872
Yorkshire Street Convent, Burnley founded from Commercial Rd, London - Sr Angela Gilsenan.
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July 16, 1959

12 Sisters from Brooklyn arrive in Panama to begin their work

July 16, 1959

Mission to Americas from Brooklyn, New York - M Euphrasia Lafferty

July 16, 1914

Foundation to Trangie, New South Wales from Bathurst - M Malachy Cahill

July 16, 1868

Foundation to Shrewsbury from Carlow

July 16, 1858

Foundation to Manchester, New Hampshire from Providence, Rhode Island - M Frances Warde

July 18, 1848

Foundation to Derry from Tullamore - Mary Anne Doyle

July 19, 1859

St Vincent's Convent, Hardy Street Liverpool founded - closed 1939.

July 20, 1991

Founding of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - first president, Doris Gottemoeller

July 20, 1889

Foundation to Kyneton from Geelong - M Gabriel Sherlock

July 20, 1872

Foundation to St Johnsbury, Vermont - M Stanislaus O'Malley

July 20, 1783

Death of Catherine's father, James McAuley

July 21, 1947

Convent opened at Highfields, Derby.

July 21, 1994

Sculpture of Catherine erected at entrance to Mercy International Centre

July 22, 1873

Opening of St Saviours, Toowoomba, Queensland - M Rose Flanagan

July 22, 1875

Foundation to Cedar Rapids from Davenport, Iowa

July 22, 1868

Foundation to Albury, New South Wales from Goulburn - M Ignatius Murphy

July 23, 1994

Opening of Mercy International Centre, Baggot St, Dublin

July 23, 1896

Foundation to Portland, Oregon from Morris, Minnesota - M Joseph Lynch

July 23, 1890

Foundation to Wilcannia from Yass, New South Wales - M Paul Fielding

July 24, 1851

Old Swan Convent opened as a branch house from Mount Vernon Convent, Liverpool.

July 24, 1974

Classes begin in a new co-institutional college in Palmerston North. Sister M. Clement Long is appointed Principal of the Girls School

July 24, 1858

Foundation to Edinburgh from Limerick - M Gertrude Hynes

July 25, 1981

Sisters of Mercy, Tacloban, Phillipines become autonomous

July 25, 1894

Foundation to St Mary's, Christchurch from Greymouth