The Sisters of Mercy celebrate 150 years

By Darryl Fernance
Updated November 12 2012 - 8:45pm, first published October 25 2009 - 11:54pm
HONOURING: Apostolic Nuncio - Most Reverend Guiseppi Lazzarotto, Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Mark Coleridge and Former Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Francis Carroll at the 150th anniversary Mass for the Sisters of Mercy Goulburn Congregation.
HONOURING: Apostolic Nuncio - Most Reverend Guiseppi Lazzarotto, Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Mark Coleridge and Former Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Francis Carroll at the 150th anniversary Mass for the Sisters of Mercy Goulburn Congregation.

ON October 28, 1858 six Sisters of Mercy from Westport in Ireland arrived in Goulburn under the leadership of Sister Ignatius Murphy to start the first congregation in regional Australia.

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