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The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute for women in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley . As of 2019, the institute has about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations .
Catherine McAuley, RSM (29 September 1778 – 11 November 1841) was an Irish Catholic religious sister who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831. [1] The women's congregation has always been associated with teaching, especially in Ireland, where the sisters taught Catholics (and at times Protestants) at a time when education was mainly reserved for members of the established Church of Ireland.
At the age of 19 Whitty joined Catherine McAuley, the founder of the Sisters of Mercy, at the convent in Baggot Street, Dublin, in 1839.Serving as Whitty's spiritual guide through her novitiate, Catherine McAuley was extremely close to her and requested Mother Vincent to sit by her side in her dying hours.
A small group of Mercy Sisters arrived in Chicago in 1846, led by Frances Warde, Catherine McAuley's closest friend. Within weeks, they opened a "select school" that became St. Francis Xavier Academy for Females, the first school chartered in the city of Chicago. The course of study covered primary, secondary and collegiate levels.
The Sisters of Mercy founded Mount Saint Mary College as a liberal arts school for women in 1908, in North Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1924, the sisters purchased Georgian Court estate and moved the college there, renaming it Georgian Court College. [14] For more than a century, from 1908 to 2015, the institution was headed by Sisters of Mercy.
When the last two Sisters of Mercy remaining in Columbus retired this month, 162 years of nuns serving this community came to a close.. It’s part of a national trend. The number of nuns, also ...
Borgia Egan (22 March 1876 - 11 February 1962) was a member of the Sisters of Mercy.She founded Mercyhurst University in 1926 and served as its first president. As an advocate of women's higher education, she believed that women should have the same chances and opportunities that men do.
The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo first came from France to Bohemia in 1837 at the invitation of Alois Josef, Freiherr von Schrenk, Prince-Bishop of Prague. They established a hospital and nursing school on Petřín Hill below the Strahov Garden and soon became one of the most numerous and most significant congregations ...