Thursday 04 April 2002
Closure of the Falklands Mission.
SUBMIT A MERCY FACT
April 25, 1832

Sisters asked to take care of cholera victims, Townsend St Centre, Dublin

April 26, 1813

Birth of Juliana Hardman, first Superior of St Mary's Convent, Handsworth.

April 26, 1921

Foundation to Euroa, Victoria from Rosanna - M Assumpta Barry

April 26, 1882

Convent opened in Beaumont, Dublin

April 26, 1880

Foundation to Mohill, Co Leitrim from Longford - M Aloysius Martin

April 26, 1783

Birth of Catherine's youngest brother, James William McAuley

April 27, 1847

First profession in New York - M Vincent Haire (Foundress, Brooklyn 1855)

April 28, 1973

Union of Sisters of Mercy, Kerry - M Philomena Harrington

April 28, 1878

Foundation to Kinvara Co Clare

April 29, 1879

Foundation to Gympie, Queensland from Brisbane - M Stanislaus

April 29, 1945

Opening of Mercy Hospital, Albury, New South Wales - M Hugh Berrell

April 29, 1841

Death of Catherine's nephew, James McAuley

April 30, 1867

Foundation to Ballyshannon from Kinsale - M Ignatius Joseph McCarthy

April 30, 1917

Death of M Regis Murray, Foundress of Reefton

May 01, 1847

Sr Bernard Dickson entered Bermondsey Convent, London. She ministered in Chelsea, the Crimea and NZ

May 01, 1880

Foundation to Jamaica, West Indies from Cincinnatti

May 01, 1862

Foundation to Clara, Co Offaly from Tullamore - M Gertrude Dunne

May 01, 1843

School opened at St John's, Newfoundland

May 01, 1855

Foundation to Kilrush from Birr - M Anastasia Beckett/M Vincent Egan

May 02, 1883

Foundation to Sheffield from Commercial Rd, East London - Sr Scholastica McDonald.

May 02, 2000

Trinity Health, Novi, Michigan, was launched when the Sisters of the Holy Cross and the Sisters of Mercy Regional Community of Detroit joined their health care ministries.

May 03, 1935

Swanage Convent, Dorset founded from Hull - Sr Anastasia O'Hara

May 03, 1848

Opening of first permanent Mercy convent in Australia - Perth, Western Australia

May 03, 1871

Foundation to Carndonough from Derry, Northern Ireland