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Monday 08 April 1850
Mother Cecilia Maher and eight Sisters of Mercy, (another woman had joined them in Sydney) together with Bishop Jean Baptiste Francois Pompallier and other clergy, arrived in New Zealand on the sailing vessel, Océanie.
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October 15, 1878Foundation to Hokitika from Ennis, Co Clare - M Clare Moloney
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October 14, 1876Death at Baggot St of M Agnes Whitty, Crimea, Buenos Aires
October 16, 1843Foundation to Sunderland from St Maries of the Isle, Cork - M Aloysius O'Connell
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October 15, 1860Foundation to Vicksburg from Baltimore - M de Sales Brown
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October 17, 1854Sr Clare Moore led Sisters from Bermondsey to the Crimea.
October 17, 1849Foundation to Derby from Kinsale - Sr Evangelist Benson.
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October 17, 1871Opening of the second purpose built convent in Perth – built by the Fenians.’
October 17, 1903Foundation to Coburg from North Melbourne - M Bernard Lyons
October 17, 1897Foundation to Cape Town, South Africa from Strabane - M Teresa Cowley
October 17, 1849Foundation to Derby, England from Kinsale - M Evangelist Benson
October 16, 1864Foundation to Worcester, Massachusetts from New York - M Jerome Shubrick
October 18, 1914Foundation to Cunnamulla from Brisbane - M Scholastica
October 20, 1895Foundation to Range Convent, Rockhampton
October 19, 1924Foundation to Clonbur, Co Galway from Ballinrobe, Co Mayo
October 21, 1798Death of Catherine's mother, Elinor McAuley
October 21, 1876M Gertrude Blake (professed Baggot St) died, Pittsburgh
October 21, 1864Foundation to Omaha, Nebraska from Manchester, New Hampshire - M Ignatius Lynch
October 23, 2015Sisters of Mercy from America were in Beirut before the Civil War of 1975-1990
October 23, 1898Sisters take charge of Coromandel Hospital, Auckland
October 23, 1853Chicago Mercy Hospital and Orphan Asylum opened
October 22, 1836Profession at Baggot St of M Anne Agnes (Catherine's niece) and M Cecilia Marmion
October 24, 1838M Vincent Hartnett professed - Limerick
October 24, 1969Foundation to Yola, Nigeria from Dungarvan, Co Waterford - M Philomena Kelly
October 24, 1851Foundation to Loughrea, Galway from Baggot St - M Magdalen Bourke