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Thursday 22 August 1872
Yorkshire Street Convent, Burnley founded from Commercial Rd, London - Sr Angela Gilsenan.
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May 01, 1855Foundation to Kilrush from Birr - M Anastasia Beckett/M Vincent Egan
May 02, 1883Foundation to Sheffield from Commercial Rd, East London - Sr Scholastica McDonald.
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May 02, 2000Trinity 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, 1935Swanage Convent, Dorset founded from Hull - Sr Anastasia O'Hara
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May 03, 1848Opening of first permanent Mercy convent in Australia - Perth, Western Australia
May 03, 1871Foundation to Carndonough from Derry, Northern Ireland
May 03, 1932Amalgamation of Wilcannia-Forbes communities - M Gertrude Gallagher
May 03, 1880Foundation to Adelaide, South Australia from Buenos Aires, Argentina - M Evangelista Fitzpatrick
May 04, 1879Foundation to New Inn, Co Tipperary from Charleville - M Joseph Croke
May 05, 1900Foundation to Seymour from Mansfield - M Agnes Ryan
May 06, 1872Foundation to Warrnambool, Victoria from Baggot St - M Philomena Maguire
May 06, 1840Foundation to Galway from Baggot St - M Teresa White
May 06, 1889St Katherine Drexel, Foundress of Sisters of Blessed Sacrament, began novitiate in Mercy convent, Pittsburgh
May 07, 1904Convent at Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire founded from Hull.
May 07, 1894Foundation to Rosscarbery from Skibbereen, Co Cork - M de Sales Dooner
May 07, 1872Foundation to Middletown, Connecticut from Ennis - M Agnes Healy
May 08, 2003Death of Sr Mairead Burke of Muhoroni Mission, Kenya from malaria.
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May 08, 1862Building of St Mary's Convent Ponsonby, Motherhouse of the Sisters of Mercy Auckland is completed. Sisters still live and minister on the site.
May 08, 1883Sisters from Tralee began work in Fever Hospital, Listowel, Co Kerry
May 08, 1848Foundation to Loretto, Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh - M Catherine Wynne
May 09, 1839Death at Baggot St of first non-Irish Sister - M Gertrude Jones from Wales
May 10, 1861Foundation to Brisbane, Australia from Baggot St – M Vincent Whitty
May 10, 1861Final profession of first Irish Sisters
May 10, 1861Foundation to Brisbane, Queensland from Baggot St - M Vincent Whitty