Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy

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Cornerstone for the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy motherhouse, which once stood on the corner of Queen and Legare Streets, 1940

In 1829, at the request of Bishop John England, Mary and Honora O’Gorman, Teresa Berry, and Mary Elizabeth Burke left Baltimore for Charleston to begin a religious congregation, the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.

From the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy Archive. http://sistersofcharityolm.org/index.htm

 

Pre-Diocesan and Founding, 1788-1842
Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy