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The Mercy Sisters

By Maddie Dowling

  • Foundation

    Foundation
    Catherine McAuley, Anna Maria Doyle and Elizabeth Harley professed their vows and became the first Sisters of Mercy.

  • Kingstown

    Kingstown
    One of the original Mercy Branch House Communities was founded.

  • Tullamore

    Tullamore
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Charleville

    Charleville
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Carlow

    Carlow
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Cork

    Cork
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Limerick

    Limerick
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Boostertown

    Boostertown
    One of the original Mercy Branch House Communities was founded.

  • Bermondsey (London)

    Bermondsey (London)
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Galway

    Galway
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Birr

    Birr
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Birmingham

    Birmingham
    One of the original Mercy Communities was founded.

  • Sisters of Mercy Rules Est.

    Sisters of Mercy Rules Est.
    The Rules and Constitutions of the Sisters of Mercy were written (most by Catherine) and was confirmed by Pope Gregory XVI.

  • Catherine Dies

    Catherine Dies
    When Catherine died she had made ten foundations of Sisters of Mercy. 8 in Ireland and 2 in England. The sisters tried to respond to needs of those poor and neglected.They established schools and clinics, cared for the sick and dying in their homes, consoled the bereaved, provided refuge for homeless people, and befriended prisoners and their families.

  • Australia

    Australia
    In 1846 Mercy Sisters came to Perth and started a foundation there. The leader of this first Mercy community in Australia was Ursula Frayne who was with Catherine when she died.

  • More Foundations in Australia

    More Foundations in Australia
    Over the past few decades, more Foundations were made in Australia.

  • Mery Congregrations

    Mery Congregrations
    There were 52 different Mercy Congrigrations in Australia.

  • Sacred Heart Shepparton

    Sacred Heart Shepparton
    The sisters of Mercy commenced Secondary Catholic education on the 23rd of February 1902 when they started Sacred Heart.

  • Congrigrations Unite

    Congrigrations Unite
    The Australian Bishop encouraged congregations of the same origin to unite so that the owrk of Catholic education and other ministries would be strengthened.

  • Mercy Congregrations

    Mercy Congregrations
    By 1952 there were 17 Mercy congregations in Australia.

  • Congregation of Australian Union of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy

    Congregation of Australian Union of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy
    The Congregation of the Australian Union of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy (the Union) was formed from the Congregations of Adelaide, Bathurst, Goulburn, Gunnedah, Melbourne, Perth, Singleton and Wilcannia-Forbes.

  • Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia

    Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia
    The movement towards unity established at the 1977 assembly ultimately led to the creation of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia.

  • Formation of Notre Dame College

    Formation of Notre Dame College
    St Colman’s and Sacred Heart formed Notre Dame in 1984. The name Notre Dame was named after Mary the Mother of Jesus. Notre means “our” in French and Dame means Lady in French.