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Welcome to the website of the Sisters of Mercy – as we say in Irish ‘Céad Míle Fáilte’. More
24 wrz 2024 · The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy is an international Catholic Religious Congregation founded in 1831 in Dublin by Catherine McAuley. Catherine, inspired by her Christian faith, put her life and her resources in the service of people who were poor, disadvantaged and forgotten.
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 (R.S.M.) is a Roman Catholic religious congregation founded in Dublin in 1831 by Catherine Elizabeth McAuley. The order is one of the largest English-speaking congregations and has established schools, hospitals, and social services for people in need throughout the world.
She established the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin on 12 December 1831 and stated the principal aims of the Congregation were to educate poor girls, to lodge and maintain poor young women who are in danger...and to visit the sick and poor.
They were the first three Sisters of Mercy to travel to Belfast from the Motherhouse in Baggot Street, Dublin, and the first nuns to travel to and settle in the northeast of Ulster since the 16 th century.
The abusive conduct allegedly perpetrated at institutions run by the Sisters of Mercy ranged from overuse of corporal punishment to emotional abuse, and included some accusations of sexual abuse by lay persons employed at the institutions.
