Monday 30 January 1995
Collaborative mission to the Falkland Islands - Srs Mairead Burke and Bridie Farrelly.
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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

July 26, 1898

Orphanage opened, Broken Hill, New South Wales

July 26, 1954

Establishment of Union of Sisters of Mercy of Australia - M Patricia O'Neill

July 26, 1838

House opened at Booterstown - M Ursula Frayne

July 27, 1985

Union of Sisters of Mercy of Diocese of Waterford/Lismore - MJ Sheehy

July 27, 1857

St Mary's Hospital, San Francisco - first Catholic Hospital in far-west

July 27, 1902

Foundation to Toowong, Queensland - M Patrick Potter

July 28, 2020

First Mercy Global Presence Regional Gatherings were held 28-30 July 2020

July 28, 1981

Swanbourne Road Convent, Sheffield founded - Sr Pauline O'Leary

July 28, 1893

Foundation to Sandy Point, West Newfoundland from Providence, Rhode Island - M Antonio Egan

July 30, 1916

Death of M Patricia Waldron, Foundress of Merion community

July 31, 1851

Death of Sr Bernard Garden - Foundress of Pontypool, Elgin and Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire.

July 31, 1922

The combined convent, boarding school and Notre Dame Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa were destroyed by fire originating from a neighboring house

August 01, 1873

St Philomena's School opened in Te Aro, Wellington

August 01, 1836

First reception at Tullamore - M Catherine Locke, M Clare Delamere

August 02, 1945

Death of M Cecilia Cunningham, Adelaide, South Australia

August 04, 1873

Foundation to Rockhampton from Brisbane - M Vincent Whitty/M de Sales Gorry

August 05, 1866

St Mary's Chapel opens on St Mary's Convent site in Ponsonby Auckland.

August 05, 1895

Death of M Bernard Dickson, Crimean nurse, Foundress of Wellington