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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 .
The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band formed in Leeds in 1980. [6] After achieving early underground fame, the band experienced a commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s, sustaining their success until the early 1990s, when they halted the release of new records in protest against their record company, WEA .
A sign on the green at the University of Minnesota Morris telling of the school's origin as a boarding school for Native Americans. Born Alicia Lynch in Cork, Ireland in 1826, Mother Mary Joseph Lynch joined the Sister of Mercy in 1846 at the Kinsale Convent of Mercy in Ireland, being one of the first to join this new convent.
The Sisters of Mercy song "Lucretia My Reflection" was written by Eldritch about Morrison. The lyric compares her to the historical figure Lucrezia Borgia . Asked about her favourite memory from the Sisters of Mercy, Morrison recalled, " Petra , riding my little Arabian horse throughout the magnificent city"; this on location for the video ...
Built by Reverend Thomas J. Dalton, the Sacred Heart Convent and Holy Angels Orphanage was dedicated May 2, 1865 by Bishop Eugene O'Connell. Under the Sisters of Mercy, it served from 1866 to 1932 as the first orphanage of the Northern Mines. It functioned as an academy from 1868 to 1965 and as a convent from 1866 to 1968. [12] [13]
Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, 15 May 1959) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post-punk scene, transformed into a gothic rock band, and, in later years, flirted with hard rock.
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.
Gorry was born in Ipswich on 16 February 1844. She was educated by the Benedictine nuns of Subiaco, Sydney, who had a small school attached to their convent. [1]Just over a year after the first group of Sisters of Mercy led by Mother Vincent Whitty arrived in Queensland from Ireland on 10 May 1861, Jane Gorry joined them as a postulant on 24 May 1862.