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24 unusual facts about Sisters of Mercy


California State Capitol Museum

The Sisters of Mercy Memorial, honoring the religious order which arrived in Sacramento in 1857 to care for the children of miners and to serve the sick and homeless.

Carroll Mansion

The mansion remained empty for the next eleven years and was purchased in 1855 by the Sisters of Mercy.

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles was one of five children, his three sisters all becoming nuns and his brother was ordained as a Jesuit priest.

Devoted to his family, he crossed the continent on his first American trip to visit Mother Mary Baptist Russell of San Francisco (who, with two others of his sisters, had entered the Order of Mercy), and found time to write for his children and send them day by day an admirable account of his experiences.

Clemens August von Droste-Vischering

As administrator he founded in 1808 an independent congregation of Sisters of Mercy, the so-called Klemens-Schwestern, who, though practically confined to the Diocese of Münster, numbered eighty-one houses and 1126 members in 1904.

Damascus College Ballarat

Sacred Heart College and St Martin’s in the Pines were owned and administered by the Sisters of Mercy.

Dignity Health

Sheila Browne, RSM, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, West Midwest Community, Burbank, CA

Gaston Christian School

In 1994, it entered into a contract with the Sisters of Mercy to lease a portion of the old Sacred Heart College campus in Belmont for use by the middle and High school.

Girrawheen, Western Australia

Two private primary schools are also located in the suburb—Our Lady of Mercy Primary adjacent to the Summerfield shopping area, and Emmanuel Christian Primary School in Salcott Road, whilst Mercy College, a Catholic school covering Kindergarten to Year 12 and established in 1972 by the Sisters of Mercy, is located just beyond the suburb's southeastern boundary.

Isidore Robot

In 1884 these were replaced by Sisters of Mercy from Lacon, Illinois, whose ministry in Oklahoma has continued ever since.

Jug in the form of a Head, Self-portrait

According to art critic Martin Gayford, prostitutes were to van Gogh Sisters of Mercy, providing "a little taste of paradise at 2 francs a time", and representing his single emotional and sensuous point of contact with other people.

Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park

It was given to the Sisters of Mercy who ran it as an orphanage named the Stanford and Lathrop Memorial Home for Friendless Children.

Marion, Iowa

The town was the home to St. Berchman's Seminary, established in 1905 by the Sisters of Mercy as a boarding school for small boys.

Mary Celine Fasenmyer

Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer, R.S.M., (October 4, 1906, Crown, Pennsylvania – December 27, 1996, Erie, Pennsylvania) was a mathematician.

For ten years after her graduation she taught and studied at Mercyhurst College in Erie, where she joined the Sisters of Mercy.

Maryslim

"A Perfect Mess" features another great guest-appearance: Jyrki 69 of The 69 Eyes sings the lead vocals in the coverversion of “This Corrosion” from the Sisters of Mercy.

Patrick Perkins

In 1906, the house was sold to the Rev. Mother Patrick of the Sisters of Mercy to create the 20-bed Mater Misericordiae Hospital (now a tertiary hospital located at South Brisbane); the former synagogue being the hospital chapel.

Rose Historic Chapel

During his reign, many churches and buildings were constructed, including the Sisters of Mercy St Mary’s Convent.

Sacred Heart College, Geelong

Established in 1860 by the Sisters of Mercy, the school quickly became recognised as a high class education establishment, with a liberal, comprehensive curriculum.

Sarah Peter

The foundations of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, the Sisters of Mercy, the Little Sisters of the Poor in Cincinnati, and other institutions, owed much to her generosity.

Series C Banknotes

The front of the note features Catherine McAuley who founded the Sisters of Mercy, the background features the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin which was founded by the Sisters of Mercy.

St Ursula's School

Opened in 1897 by the Sisters of Mercy, St. Ursula's was originally a girls' boarding school.

Waratah, New South Wales

The suburb contains a major acute hospital, the Calvary Mater (formerly the "Mater Misericordiae"), owned by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy, who, until recently occupied all the most senior nursing positions.

You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River

The Sisters of Mercy, also mentioned in the song, is a religious organisation of women founded in Dublin, Ireland.


Gerard Tracey

An adopted child, he was educated at Handsworth (by the Sisters of Mercy) and later attended St Philip's Grammar School, followed by University College, Oxford, where he studied history.

Holy Name of Jesus Catholic School

The children of HNJ parish attended Ascension School, which opened in September 1961, staffed by the Irish Sisters of Mercy, from Ardee, Ireland.

James Alipius Goold

In order to expand Catholic education, in 1857 Bishop Goold succeeded in bringing the Mercy Sisters from Perth into the diocese.

Janet Mead

She studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium before joining the Sisters of Mercy order and became a music teacher at two local Catholic schools.

Marian College, Christchurch

Marian College, Christchurch was founded in 1982 with the merging of two Catholic secondary schools for girls, St Mary’s College (Sisters of Mercy, established in Colombo Street in 1893) and McKillop College (named for Mary MacKillop (St Mary of the Cross)) located in Shirley (founded in 1949 by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart).

Ocean County, New Jersey

Georgian Court University in Lakewood is a private Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy college, which opened in 1908 on the former winter estate of millionaire George Jay Gould I, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould.

Presentation College, Athenry

This is the new Trustee body for the Voluntary Secondary Schools of the Presentation Sisters, The Daughters of Charity, the Sisters of the Christian Retreat, the Sisters of Mercy and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.

Sisters of Divine Charity

The Sisters of Divine Charity were founded at Besançon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul.

Ursula Frayne Catholic College

The school was named after Mother Ursula Frayne to publicly commemorate the first leader of the Sisters of Mercy and founder of many Catholic schools in Western Australia.

William George McCloskey

He introduced many religious orders into the diocese: the Passionists, the Benedictines, the Fathers of the Resurrection, the Sisters of Mercy, the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Franciscan Sisters, and the Brothers of Mary.