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The official foundress of the Brooklyn Regional Community is Ellen Haire, the daughter of Edmund and Catherine Haire who was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland in 1821. She entered the Sisters of Mercy Convent, Baggot Street on Mercy Day 1844. She received the holy habit and her name, Sister Mary Vincent on April 19, 1845. As a novice, she volunteered for the Dublin community’s foundation to New York, and so was one of the party of eight who set out from Ireland on April 15, 1846. They arrived in New York on May 14, 1846 living first with the Sisters of Charity on East Broadway until their first convent was ready for occupancy on West Washington Place. This became known as St. Catherine’s Convent, where Sister Mary Vincent lived until she left to found the Sisters of Mercy in Brooklyn...
Click here to read 'Mercy Grows in Brooklyn: Mother Vincent Haire' by Julia Upton rsm