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St. Rita Health Centre is Celebrating...
The 176th anniversary
of the founding of the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin,
Ireland.
On
September 24, 1827, the feast of Our Lady of Mercy, Catherine McAuley
opened the House of Mercy in Ireland. Catherine, an Irish Catholic
laywoman, used her sizable inheritance to build the House of Mercy as a
safe shelter and place of education for young women who came to Dublin
from the surrounding countryside seeking employment. Unknowingly,
Catherine McAuley planted the seeds of a new religious congregation.
On
December 12, 1831, Catherine pronounced her vows as the first Sister of
Mercy.
Sisters
of Mercy who minister throughout the world to persons who are poor, sick
and uneducated celebrate this as their Foundation Day.
