Thursday 16 July 1959
12 Sisters from Brooklyn arrive in Panama to begin their work
SUBMIT A MERCY FACTFoundation to Tumut from Goulburn - M Bernard Greenan
Novitiate opened at Bella Vista, Cobh, Co Cork
Foundation to Gravesend, Kent from Bermondsey.
Establishment of Mercy Associates, Auckland
Sisters take charge of Stanton Military Hospital during Civil War
Foundation to Cappoquin from Wexford - M Catherine Devereaux
Foundation to Des Moines, Iowa from Davenport - M Elizabeth Butler
Foundation to Grafton, Australia from Bermondsey - Sr Stanislaus Simson.
Sister Mary Joseph Lynch, founder of the Detroit, Michigan region, received the holy habit of religion at the Kinsale convent
Death of M Austin Carroll, Mobile (professed Cork, Foundress of Buffalo, writer of life of Catherine)
The inaugural Catherine McAuley Lecture is delivered by Dr Alice Sinnott rsm. The lecture series would become an annual event.
Announcement of publication of a book of poems, Dialogue for Christmas Eve, the third published work of Sr. M. Edwardine O'Connor, head of the English department at Mercy College, Detroit, Michigan
Opening of Respite Care Centre for HIV/AIDS patients, Bodmin
Opening of new Mercy Hospital, Albury, New South Walse - M Hugh Berrell
Carmel College, a secondary school for girls, is opened on Auckland's North Shore - Sister M Justine Gillies
Death of M Aloysius Brady, Foundress of Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
Foundation to West Texas
Foundation to Red Bluff, California from Yreka - M Helena Dickson
Foundation to Geelong, Victoria from Baggot St - M C Xavier Maguire
Foundation to Navan from Kells - M Catherine Atkinson
M Bertrand O'Keefe died Carysfort (Superior Baggot St 1918 - 24)
Death of M Emily George, former Provincial Administrator, Detroit
Foundation to Healesville, Victoria from Lilydale - M Columba Neville