Valiant Women

A selection of stories documenting our Newfoundland Mercy Story from our arrival in 1842 can be accessed from this page.

We remember these people, places and events with gratitude for the witness they bear to the dedication of Sisters of Mercy over the years.

November 25, 2024 Remembering our Newfoundland Mercy Story 26:
Sister M. Dominic Doyle

November 8, 2024 Remembering our Newfoundland Mercy Story 25:
Sister M. Xaverius Dowsley

October 19, 2024 Remembering our Newfoundland Mercy Story 24:
Sister M. Alphonsus McNamara

September 20, 2024 Remembering our Newfoundland Mercy Story 23:
Sister M. Borgia Laughlan

September 7, 2024 Remembering our Newfoundland Mercy Story 22:
Sister M. Augustine O’Connor

August 24, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 21
Sister M. Brigid Hoey

August 17, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 20:
Sister M. Joseph Rawlins

July 25, 2024 Remembering Our Newfoundland Mercy Story 19:
Sr Mary Benedicta Fitzgibbons

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More stories documenting our Newfoundland Mercy Story can be read in “Irish Pioneers”
See also: Significant Events in Our Mercy Story

If we love God, we will undoubtedly love our neighbour also; they are as cause and effect.

Retreat Instructions, p.147

This is your life, joys and sorrow mingled, one succeeding the other.

Letter to Francis Warde

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will quickly show itself in the exterior.

Retreat Instructions, p. 145

May God bless the poor Sisters of Mercy and make them very humble that they may not be unworthy of the distinguished blessings God has bestowed upon them.

Letter to Elizabeth Moore

[God] knows I would rather be cold and hungry than the poor in Kingston or elsewhere should be deprived of any consolation in our power to afford.

Letter to Teresa White