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72-568: Merion Mercy Academy is a female Catholic, college preparatory school, teaching grades 9 through 12, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy located in Merion, Pennsylvania , just outside Philadelphia . It is an independent school located in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and was previously known as the "Mater Misericordiae Academy" prior to 1968. Significant changes have taken place from 1987 to

144-530: A Saint. The second superior was Mary Angela Collins. Soon after her succession, a set of rules, adapted from that of Augustine of Hippo , was drawn up by Bishop Francis Moylan , and approved by Pope Pius VI in September 1791. This congregation of teaching Sisters itself was given formal approval by Pope Pius VII in 1805. Communities branching from Cork were founded at Killarney in 1793, Dublin in 1794, and Waterford in 1798. A second convent at Cork

216-514: A great many parts of the world." In 1775, Nagle entered with some companions on a novitiate for the religious life. With them, she received the habit on 29 June 1776, taking the name of "Mother Mary of St John of God ". They made their first annual vows 24 June 1777. The foundress had begun the construction of a convent close to that which she had built for the Ursulines , and it was opened on Christmas Day , 1775. They adopted as their title

288-471: A group of ten Sisters of Mercy to Cincinnati from Kinsale, Ireland. In 1892, the eleven Sisters of Mercy came to Cincinnati at the invitation of Archbishop John Baptist Purcell . They soon opened a Night School for Young Women. Mercy Hospital in Hamilton, Ohio was founded in 1892. Mother of Mercy High School was founded in 1915. They also direct Bethany House Services for homeless women and children. By

360-555: A group travelled in 1900 to the goldfields of Western Australia . This group formed a union with the Geraldton Congregation in 1969. The Presentation Sisters of Watervliet, New York established their community in 1881. They elected not to join the Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America, and Watervliet remains an independent congregation. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

432-849: A house in Glasgow in 1849 and a band from Carlow , Irland arrived in New Zealand , in 1850. In 1860, St Catharine's Convent was founded in Edinburgh and in 1868, the English community established houses in Shrewsbury and on the island of Guernsey . With the London Times reporting appalling conditions at the front, the War Office appealed for volunteer nurses. On 14 October 1854, Bishop Thomas Grant , of Southwark approached

504-411: A large house on Baggot Street, Dublin, as a school for poor girls and a shelter for homeless servant girls and women. She was assisted in the works of the house by local women. There was no idea then of founding a religious institution; McAuley's plan was to establish a society of secular ladies who would spend a few hours daily in instructing the poor. Gradually the ladies adopted a black dress and cape of

576-559: A living, workrooms were established at Cork, Youghal , and other places, where Limerick lace, Irish points and crochet were taught. In 1802, the Sisters' example inspired the formation of the Presentation Brothers . In 1833 a house was founded by Josephine Sargeant from Clonmel at Manchester , England, from which sprang two more, one at Buxton St Anne's and one at Matlock St Joseph's. The schools were well attended;

648-1080: A postulant arrived in Melbourne from Limerick to found a convent and school at St Kilda, the summer resort for the growing capital of the newly established colony of Victoria. The party of Presentation women who arrived in Geraldton, Western Australia in July 1891 was made up of three Sisters and one postulant from Sneem, one Sister from Mitchelstown, one postulant from Tipperary and three from Cork. In May 1874, five Sisters arrived in Wagga Wagga from Kildare; and in August 1886, three Sisters and seven postulants from Lucan arrived in Lismore . Sisters from Wagga Wagga established new foundations in Elsternwick (1882), Hay (1883) and Longreach (1900). From Hay,

720-408: A sound education in English; to these were added domestic economy , Latin , Irish , French , and German . The average attendance of children in each of the city convents of Dublin, Cork, and Limerick was over 1,200, and that in the country convents between 300 and 400, making a total of 22,200 who received an excellent education without charge. For girls who needed to support themselves by earning

792-415: A special concern for women and children. Members take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience , the evangelical counsels commonly vowed in religious life, and, in addition, vows of service. They continue to participate in the life of the surrounding community. In keeping with their mission of serving the poor and needy, many sisters engage in teaching, medical care, and community programs. The organization

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864-596: A special publication on the "Inner Life of the Hull Nunnery Exposed" to cover the trial. Saurin won her case and was awarded fifty pounds in damages. In May 2009, the institute was among four religious congregations for women that have come under scrutiny and criticism for their part in running Magdalene laundries in decades past, where women were brought by the state or their families for being unmarried and pregnant, or for other reasons. The report found that girls supervised by congregations or orders, chiefly

936-633: Is Marianne Grace, a former chair of the Board of Trustees, and previous Director of Operation. Merion Mercy joined the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association ( PIAA ) in 1994 for scholastic athletic competition. The very next year the basketball team won the state PIAA Class AA championship. Continuing their success, the track and field team won the PIAA state championship in 1998 and in 2001, and

1008-557: 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 . They also started many education and health care facilities around the world. The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy began when Catherine McAuley used an inheritance to build

1080-592: Is active in lobbying and politics. The Sisters of Mercy are constituted as religious and charitable organizations in a number of countries. Mercy International Association is a registered charity in Ireland. In 1869 Sister of Mercy Susan Saurin brought suit against her superiors accusing them of bullying, assault and imprisonment, and claiming £5,000 in damages. The "Great Convent Case" opened at Westminster Hall with heightened press interest given Victorian antipathy to all things Catholic. The Daily Telegraph made

1152-605: The Poor Clare Sisters arrived and in 1962 a new school block was completed.  When the Poor Clares withdrew in 1971, the Presentation Sisters agreed to return. Sister Mary Vincent Shelverton was Head Teacher from 1972 to 1981. In 1961, Our Lady Help of Christians school was begun at Newnham with 52 children. The first off-shore foundation was made in 1963 on King Island . By the end of

1224-464: The UN Economic and Social Council . The Union of Presentation Sisters is a congregation of 1,300 women working internationally in thirteen Provinces or Units. Each Unit takes responsibility for its own life and mission in response to the direction of the congregation. (The United States Province is also a member of the Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America.) Presentation Sisters in

1296-567: The United States Department of Education . A 27,000-square-foot (2,500 m) addition to the MMA building in 2003 added a new chapel , administrative offices, classrooms and meeting rooms, new athletic facilities, and a study center for students. Some other significant renovations took place in the summer of 2004. The school's principal from 2007 to 2018 was Sister Barbara Buckley, who is also an alumna. The current head of school

1368-676: The volleyball team won the PIAA state championship in 2001 and 2003. The volleyball team earned back-to-back-to-back-to-back state championships in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. The crew team won the Groton Cup at the Henley Regatta in 2011 and both the Freshmen 8 and Varsity 4 won Stotesbury in 2012. The building houses the Patricia Waldron Fitness Center. Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy

1440-750: The "Sisters of Mercy of the Americas" was established. In December 2018, the sisters marked 175 years in the United States. In July 2017 "Mercy Education System of the Americas" (MESA) was formally established to unite and serve the Mercy education ministries in Argentina, Belize, Guam, Honduras, Jamaica, the Philippines and the United States. The Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma are a separate congregation of women religious. They developed from

1512-566: The 1920s there were 39 separate Sisters of Mercy congregations across the United States and Latin America. In 1929 the "Sisters of Mercy of the Union" was founded, merging many of the congregations into one single entity with nine provinces. Seventeen communities remained independent. A federation of all the Mercy congregations was formed and in the 1970s, a common constitution was developed. Further work toward consolidation continued, and in July 1991,

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1584-550: The Blessed Virgin Mary. On 20 July 1866, four professed Sisters and five postulants set out from Fermoy , Ireland, to Tasmania , Australia. They boarded The Empress at Queenstown, Ireland , and arrived at Hobart three months later to open, at Richmond , the first Presentation convent and school in the Southern Hemisphere. The group was led by Francis Xavier Murphy, whose brother Daniel Murphy

1656-486: The Carmelite, the active labors of a Sister of Charity. The position of the institute was anomalous, its members were not bound by vows nor were they under a particular rule. Archbishop Murray asked the Sisters of Mercy to declare their intentions as to the future of their institute, whether it was to be classed as a religious congregation or to become secularized. The associates unanimously decided to become religious. It

1728-642: The Convent houses of Launceston and Hobart amalgamated, led by Mother Mary Xavier Dooley . She was born in Tasmania to Alice and James Dooley , and she was educated at St Mary's College, Hobart. The Launceston foundation saw the development of a school at Invermay , and St Finn Barr's Church School was opened on 14 January 1894 under the leadership of Mary Patrick Hickey. The Launceston community made four more foundations: Beaconsfield , Karoola , Lilydale and Longford . St Francis Xavier's School at Beaconsfield

1800-461: The Dublin community in Kingstown (1835) and Booterstown (1838). The Sisters offered free schools for the poor, academies for the daughters of the rising middle class, and “houses of mercy”, providing shelter for poor youth and women in Dublin and other cities who were in danger of being exploited. They were called upon by bishops in several major epidemics of cholera to nurse people in homes and in

1872-523: The New York group took charge of St. Michael's Home, Greenridge, Staten Island , where soon hundreds of destitute children were cared for. This became the home of the newly established Sisters of the Presentation of Staten Island, which became its own congregation on 1 May 1890. (Others from the early New York community developed into today's Presentation Sisters of New Windsor.) In 1921–1922,

1944-839: The North American Conference included eight communities, and changed its name to CPS. Together the eight communities established a collaborative ministry project in New Orleans called "Lantern Light". The first Presentation Convent in the Americas was founded in Newfoundland in 1833 at the request of Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming , Vicar Apostolic of the island. The convent and a neighboring school were established in St. John's, Newfoundland , by Mary Bernard Kirwan , accompanied by Mary Xavier Molony , Mary Magdalen O'Shaughnessy, and Mary Xaverius Lynch. The motherhouse

2016-822: The Pakistan Province founded several notable schools, including Presentation Convent School, Jhelum ; Presentation Convent High School, Murree ; Presentation Convent School, Peshawar ; Presentation Convent Girls High School , Rawalpindi; and Presentation Convent High School, Sargodha . The Indian Province includes Presentation Convent Higher Secondary School , Srinagar , and Presentation Convent Senior Secondary School, Delhi . Presentation schools in Ireland include Cashel Community School (formerly Presentation Convent, Cashel); Our Lady's College, Greenhills ; Presentation College, Athenry ; Presentation College Headford ; Presentation Secondary School, Clonmel ; and Killina Presentation Secondary School, Rahan. In Ireland,

2088-492: The Presentation Sisters also founded Clann Credo , a social investment fund. The Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America began in August 1953 under the title of the "North American Conference", when several Presentation communities in North America began to collaborate and communicate on issues of ministry, spirituality and social justice. All of these communities claim their origins from Nano Nagle. In 2002,

2160-418: The Presentation Sisters to open a convent and school at George Town . In 1957 Sisters Gabriel and Bernadette opened Stella Maris, a Church-School with 64 pupils. In February 1959 the Presentation Sisters accepted the invitation to open St Anthony's school at Riverside, a suburb of Launceston. The Presentation Sisters were in charge of the school from its inauguration, with Clare as the first principal. In 1961

2232-443: The Presentation Sisters were asked to make a foundation there. By the end of 1935, Corpus Christi Church-School and convent had been erected. In 1938 the sisters taught at St Cuthbert's Church-School. On 13 March 1949, Archbishop Tweedy offered the Presentation Sisters a foundation at New Norfolk . St Brigid's School was opened on 4 January 1926 and taken over by the Presentation Sisters in 1950. In 1956 Archbishop Young approached

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2304-468: The Sisters at Bermondsey . Together with other nuns, six Bermondsey Sisters of Mercy, including Mary Bernard Dickson , travelled to Crimea to work under Florence Nightingale . At the request of the bishop of Mahikeng , Dr Anthony Gaughran, sisters came to South Africa to found convents there. Mother Superior Teresa Cowley led a group from the convent in Strabane , with the group acting as nurses to

2376-519: The Sisters focused their energies on creating and staffing schools that would educate young people, especially young women. Most of these schools are still in operation and can be found across the globe. As of 2023, the Presentation Sisters are active in 20 countries: Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Dominica, Ecuador, India, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Slovakia, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Honora (Nano) Nagle (1718–1784)

2448-402: The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas include: [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Sisters of Mercy". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. Presentation Sisters The Presentation Sisters' mission is to help the poor and needy around the world. Historically,

2520-588: The Sisters of Mercy, and were established as an institute of pontifical right in 1973. The Sisters founded dozens of hospitals in the United States, and sponsors, or co-sponsors, six health systems. The organization also operates health care ministries in Belize, Guam, Guyana, Peru and the Philippines. In 1883, they founded The Retreat, A Home for Friendless Girls for unwed expecting mothers in Toledo, Ohio . The hospital changed names and locations several times over

2592-433: The Sisters of Mercy, suffered much less sexual abuse but instead endured frequent assaults and humiliation. The Mercy Sisters have noted they were not compensated for caring for the women and that the laundries were not profit-making ventures. "We acknowledge fully the limitations of the service we provided for these women when compared with today's standards and sincerely wish that it could have been different. We trust that

2664-529: The Sisters of the Presentation of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and the Sisters of the Presentation of Newburgh, New York, united to form one congregation, now based in New Windsor, New York . A new wave of foundations from Ireland in the USA began in 1952. In 1976, in response to the invitation of Vatican II , a number of autonomous Presentation congregations came together as one congregation. This new congregation

2736-681: The Society of Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was changed in 1791 to that of " Presentation Order" ( Ord na Toirbhirte ). Their habit was similar to that of the Ursulines. Ireland honored the Presentation Order with a pair of postage stamps for the 1975 bicentennial. The Roman Catholic Church declared Nagle a Servant of God in 1994, and Venerable in 2013, on the path toward possible canonization as

2808-660: The Southern Hemisphere in 1866 with a convent and school in Tasmania, Australia . In the 20th century, foundations were established in Africa (Zimbabwe, 1949; Zambia, 1970) and New Zealand (1951). The first of a new wave of foundations from Ireland in the USA began in Texas (San Antonio, 1952), followed by foundations in the Philippines (1960), South America (Chile, 1982; Ecuador, 1983; Peru, 1993); Slovakia (1992); and Thailand (1999). Communities of Presentation Sisters exist throughout

2880-620: The Staten Island congregation began educating young local students at St. Ann's Church, St. Clare's Church , and Our Lady Help of Christians . By the 1950s, a dozen locations were served by more than 125 Presentation Sisters of Staten Island, larger than any other Presentation community in their first two centuries. In the 1960s, they were instrumental in establishing Countess Moore High School. Founded in 1962 as an all-girls school, in September 1969 it became co-educational and later changed its name to Moore Catholic High School . In 1945,

2952-527: The Staten Island motherhouse moved from St. Michael's Home in Greenridge to the former " Horrmann Castle " atop Grymes Hill, and finally in 1965 to a new convent next to the old Greenridge property. As their numbers later dwindled, the Sisters downsized the convent and property in 2010, and began moving toward a long-term partnership with the New Windsor community. The Fargo, North Dakota community

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3024-732: The affairs of the Baggot Street house. On 12 December 1831, Catherine McAuley, Mary Ann Doyle, and Mary Elizabeth Harley professed their religious vows as the first Sisters of Mercy, thereby founding the congregation. In 1839 Mary Francis Bridgeman professed her vows and joined the congregation In the 10 years between the founding and her death on 11 November 1841, McAuley had established additional independent foundations in Ireland and England: Tullamore (1836), Charleville (1836), Carlow (1837), Cork (1837), Limerick (1838), Bermondsey, London (1839), Galway (1840), Birr (1840), and St Mary's Convent, Birmingham (1841), as well as branch houses of

3096-598: The city limits named Presentation High School, San Francisco, and one in Berkeley, California named Presentation High School, Berkeley. They also staffed schools in Gilroy and Sonoma, California . The Presentation Sisters opened San Francisco's School of the Epiphany in 1938, and Menlo Park 's Nativity Catholic School in 1956. Presentation High School San Francisco was an all-girls school. The most-recent main building

3168-537: The foundation of St Anne's Church, Lilydale, which was opened in January 1892. In 1903 St Monica's convent was opened at Longford. Attached to the convent was a large classroom that closed in 1911. In 1929 a holiday house was purchased by the Sisters at Blackmans Bay . The original farmhouse later became Maryknoll, a prayer House set up by Betty Bowes in 1979. In 1935 a new parish was established in Bellerive and

3240-613: The founding pastor of St. Michael's Church as its school building neared completion, went to Ireland in February 1874 to invite the Presentation Sisters to take charge of the girls' department. Upon the Sisters' agreeing, Paul Cardinal Cullen , Archbishop of Dublin, applied to the Holy See for the necessary authorization for the Sisters to leave Ireland and proceed to New York, which was accorded by Pope Pius IX . In 1884, Mary Joseph Magdalen, Mary Teresa Reynolds, and four other Sisters from

3312-803: The implications of the changed context are understood by the wider society." In 2011, as part of their Sculpture Trail initiative, the Ennis Tidy Towns Committee erected a statue at the site of the old St. Xavier's Primary School, now the Clare Museum . Created by Barry Wrafter, it was commissioned to celebrate the work of the Sisters of Mercy since their coming to the town in 1854. In 1849 Bishop Pompallier visited St Leo's Convent in Carlow , Ireland, seeking sisters to emigrate; eight left from St Leo's, led by Mother Mary Cecilia . They travelled to New Zealand, learning Māori along

3384-487: The military during the siege of Mahikeng. In 1992 leaders of the various congregations formed the "Mercy International Association" to foster collaboration and cooperation. The Mercy International Centre is located in Dublin. Members of the Association are: Sisters of Mercy is an international community of Roman Catholic women religious vowed to serve people who suffer from poverty, sickness and lack of education with

3456-650: The number of children, including those of an orphanage, being about 1,400. The year 1833 also brought the Presentation Sisters to Newfoundland Colony , establishing their first convent in the Americas. India received its first foundation in 1841, when Xavier Kearney and some Sisters from Rahan and Mullingar established themselves at Madras . Soon four more convents in the Madras presidency were founded from this, and in 1891 one at Rawalpindi . These schools comprised orphanages, and day and boarding schools, both for Europeans and local children. The Presentation Sisters entered

3528-535: The poor on every continent. The International Presentation Association was established in 1988 as a network of the various congregations of PBVM women, including the Union of Presentation Sisters, the Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America, and the Australian Society. The goal of the IPA is to foster unity and to enable collaboration for the sake of mission. The IPA has NGO consultant status with

3600-411: The present. Recent events include the merger of the lower school with Waldron Academy for Boys next door in 1987, thereby giving the entire 72,000-square-foot (6,700 m) Merion Mercy building, built in 1954, to the education of high school girls. The new grade school was named Waldron Mercy Academy . Academically, the school earned a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Award in 1996 as recognition from

3672-461: The public hospitals. Their services were in much demand. McAuley opened the first Convent of Mercy in England at Bermondsey on 19 November 1839 for the education of children and the visitation of the poor, sick, and needy. Mother Mary Clare Moore was appointed Superior. The convent was designed in the 'Gothic Style' by Augustus Pugin , his first purpose-designed religious community building. It

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3744-422: The same material reaching to the belt, a white collar and a lace cap and veil. In 1828, Archbishop Daniel Murray advised Miss McAuley to choose some name by which the little group might be known, and she chose that of "Sisters of Mercy", having the design of making the works of mercy the distinctive feature of the institute. She was, moreover, desirous that the members should combine with the silence and prayer of

3816-515: The small community, Clare Duggan and Augustine Keane. The remaining Sisters were Mary Teresa Comerford, who assumed the role as new superior, Xavier Daly, and their first postulant , Mary Cassian. The Sisters had great difficulties in their early founding years, but succeeded in interesting prominent Catholics of the city in their work. By 1900, the San Francisco Presentation foundation established two convents and schools within

3888-1085: The way, establishing the Sisters of Mercy in Auckland as the first female religious community in New Zealand in 1850. Michael O'Connor was born in Cobh , Ireland. In June 1841, O'Connor was appointed Vicar General of Western Pennsylvania, and two years later, Bishop of the newly constituted Diocese of Pittsburgh . He traveled to Rome for his consecration and on his return, stopped in Ireland to recruit clergy for his new diocese, obtaining eight seminarians from St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, and seven Sisters of Mercy from Carlow, Ireland. The sisters arrived in Pittsburgh in December 1843, with Frances Warde as superior. Mercy Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania opened 1898. In 1858, Mother Mary Teresa Maher led

3960-509: The world. However, historical and legal factors caused these communities to develop and operate as autonomous groups. Each community is independent of the motherhouse, and subject only to its own superioress and the bishop of its respective diocese. A large proportion of these communities are today more closely united within the Union of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, created by papal decree on 19 July 1976. Today, more than 1,600 Sisters pursue work in education and relief of

4032-542: The year, the sisters were giving religious instruction to 200 children all over the island. In 1962 a request was made by the Franciscan missionaries to make a foundation in the Aitape Vicariate, Papua New Guinea . In 1988 the Presentation Sisters requested to minister on Flinders Island and Cape Barren Island . In 1981 Sister Mary Ursula Grachan received the Order of Australia Medal for "service to education", personally awarded by Queen Elizabeth II at Albert Hall, Launceston . On 21 December 1873, six Sisters and

4104-537: The years before closing as Riverside Mercy Hospital in 2002. In 1892, they founded Mercy Hospital in Hamilton, Ohio . "With lots of heavy industry in Hamilton at the time, there was a lot of need for emergency care for accident victims." In 1893, they founded Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa In 1916, the Sisters of Mercy established Sisters of Mercy's St. Joseph's Sanitarium, in Asheville, North Carolina , to treat tuberculosis patients, which later became St. Joseph's Hospital. In 1998, St. Joseph's Hospital

4176-425: Was Bishop of Hobart and later its first Archbishop. The Presentation Sisters' Tasmanian presence expanded over the following years. In 1871 they opened St Mary's College, Hobart , the first Catholic boarding school in Australia. In 1873 Hobart established its first foundation in Launceston . Led by Francis Xavier Beechinor, the founding sisters were four Irish-born and two born in the colony. Gabriel (Teresa) Horner

4248-522: Was born in Ballygriffin, Cork, Ireland. Her wealthy Catholic family provided her the advantage of an education in France, at a time when Ireland's Education Act 1695 precluded the less advantaged from education. She quietly began teaching Irish children in the trading port of Cork City , and her reputation spread widely. In a 1769 letter, she wrote: "I often think my schools will never bring me to heaven, as I only take delight and pleasure in them... I can assure you my schools are beginning to be of service to

4320-485: Was constructed in 1930 at 2340 Turk Street. In 1991 the building became University of San Francisco 's Education Building. In nearby San Jose, California , the Presentation Sisters opened Presentation High School in 1962. The school still operates as an all-girls Catholic high school. In Sacramento, California , the Sisters staffed a pair of K–8 schools for 30 years each: Presentation School during 1961–1991, and Saint Mary School during 1969–1999. The congregation

4392-441: Was deemed better to have this congregation unconnected with any already existing community. On the Octave of the Ascension 1829 the archbishop blessed the chapel of the institution and dedicated it to Our Lady of Mercy. This combination of the contemplative and the active life necessary for the duties of the congregation called forth so much opposition that it seemed as though the community, now numbering twelve, must disband; but it

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4464-447: Was destroyed during World War II . In May 1842, at the request of Bishop Fleming , a small colony of Sisters of Mercy crossed the Atlantic to found the congregation at St. John's, Newfoundland . In 1846, the sisters arrived in Perth , Australia. In the United States, the first community of Sisters of Mercy was established in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania in 1843 followed by Providence, Rhode Island in 1851. Sisters from Limerick opened

4536-458: Was established adjacent to the Basilica of St. John the Baptist . As of 2019, the congregation was serving twelve ministry locations in Newfoundland. In November 1854, five Presentation Sisters arrived in San Francisco from Ireland at the invitation of Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany . Mary Joseph Cronin was appointed as the community's first superior; but due to unforeseen circumstances, she returned to Ireland in 1855 with two other members of

4608-415: Was established by papal decree on 19 July 1976. Its full title is: The Union of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As of 2015, member communities were those of: In 1946 the major superiors of the seven Presentation congregations in Australia agreed on common constitutions. In 1958 Pope Pius XII approved the formation of the Society of the Australian Congregations of the Presentation of

4680-431: Was established in 1799, by Mary Patrick Fitzgerald; and a convent at Kilkenny in 1800, by Mary Joseph McLoughlan. The schools, regulated at the time by a United Kingdom Government board, had for their first object the Catholic and moral training of the young, which was not interfered with by the government. The secular system followed was the "National", superseded, in many cases, by the "Intermediate", both of which ensured

4752-449: Was established in 1880 under Mary John Hughes, and took charge of a free school, home, and academy. Fargo's Presentation Sisters merged into the Union (U.S. Province) in 2013. In 1886, some Sisters from Fargo went to Aberdeen, South Dakota , and, under the guidance of Mary Joseph Butler, took charge of schools at Bridgewater, Bristol, Chamberlain, Elkton, Jefferson, Mitchell, Milbank, and Woonsocket, as well as two hospitals. In 1922, what

4824-562: Was eventually named Presentation College opened in Aberdeen. The college primarily educated nurses for the northern portion of South Dakota. In 1886, Mary Magdalen Keating, with a small group of Sisters, left New York at the invitation of Philip Joseph Garrigan (later Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa), to take charge of the schools of St. Bernard's Parish, Fitchburg, Massachusetts . The mission flourished and established other foundations in West Fitchburg and Clinton, Massachusetts ; Central Falls, Rhode Island ; and Berlin, New Hampshire . In 1997,

4896-481: Was introduced into the Diocese of Dubuque by Mother Mary Vincent Hennessey in 1874. By 1913, the congregation had established ten branch-houses in neighboring Nebraska . The Presentation Convent of St. Michael's Church (New York City) was founded on 8 September 1874, by Mother Mary Joseph Hickey of the Presentation Convent, Terenure , County Dublin, with two Sisters from that convent, two from Clondalkin, one from Tuam, and five postulants. Father Arthur J. Donnelly,

4968-433: Was opened on 23 April 1899 led by Mother Mary Paul Boylson and three other sisters. Hearing of the successful work of the Presentation Sisters, the Irish settlers of Karoola petitioned the Sisters to open a convent and school. In 1902, Magdalen Riordan and novice Aquin Darling started St Margaret's school with 50 children in attendance. In 1953 a new convent dedicated to the Sacred Heart was built. In 1891 Archbishop Murphy laid

5040-551: Was settled that several of the sisters should make their novitiates in some approved religious house and after their profession return to the institute to train the others to religious life. The Presentation Sisters , whose rule was based on the Rule of St. Augustine , seemed best adapted for the training of the first novices of the new congregation and Miss McAuley, Miss Elizabeth Harley, and Miss Anna Maria Doyle began their novitiate at George's Hill, Dublin, on 8 September 1830. While they were in training, Miss Frances Warde managed

5112-441: Was sold to Memorial Mission Hospital . The Sisters continue to operate urgent care centers in the Asheville area, under the name Sisters of Mercy Urgent Care. Mercy Health is an nonprofit Catholic healthcare organization in the Midwestern United States, and is headquartered in the suburban western St. Louis County suburb of Chesterfield, Missouri . Healthcare systems sponsored by, co-sponsored by, or with historical ties to

5184-565: Was the first Australian to join the Sisters. After copper was discovered in Queenstown on the west coast of Tasmania, Archbishop Murphy wanted a convent and school to be set up there. In January 1899, four Presentation Sisters from the Hobart Community sailed to Strahan , then by train to Queenstown. On 16 January 1899, St Joseph's School was opened with 65 children attending. The sisters were led by Mary Paul Boylson. In 1911

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