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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]
Mesquite is a city located in the northeast corner of Clark County, Nevada, United States adjacent to the Arizona state line and 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Las Vegas on Interstate 15. As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 20,471. [ 5 ]
Opened in 1940 as a library, it was converted around 1945 to a Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital branch. From 1977 to 1984, the building was used by the Boy Scouts of America for meetings. It opened as the Desert Valley Museum on May 23, 1985. In July 2001, the name was changed to the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum.
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 .
Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach focuses on health care, including dental and pre-natal services, [5] and sponsors a Health and Wellness summer camp. As of 2014 fifteen Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy serve Charleston, South Carolina from the May Forrest motherhouse on James Island. As of 2015 there were fourteen members.
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Her two sisters, Anna Maria (1795-1812) and Rebecca Mary (1802-1816) died young. Although Catherine spent most of her time in Emmitsburg, her mother sent her on occasional trips to Baltimore, Annapolis, and Philadelphia for her health and social enrichment.
In 1924, the Sisters of Mercy religious order bought the mansion to use as a convent. [5] In 1925, the Ku Klux Klan, a group known for their anti-Catholicism stance, burned a cross on a hill above the convent. [5] Many of the nuns reported unexplained activities like a white starchy powder appearing throughout the house. [5]