Editing Sisters of Mercy (section)

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[[File:Convent of Mercy, Templemore, April 2010.JPG|thumb|right|Mercy Convent, [[Templemore]], [[County Tipperary]]]]
In the 10 years between the founding and her death on 11 November 1841, McAuley established additional independent foundations in Ireland and England:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sistersofmercy.org/about-us/our-history-mercy-heritage-center/|title=Our History|website=Sistersofmercy.org|access-date=4 November 2021}}</ref> Tullamore (1836), Charleville (1836), Carlow (1837), Cork (1837), Limerick (1838), Bermondsey, London (1839), Galway (1840), Birr (1840), and [[St Mary's Convent, Handsworth|St Mary's Convent, Birmingham]] (1841), as well as branch houses of the Dublin community in Kingstown (1835) and Booterstown (1838).

The Sisters offered free schools for the poor, academies for the daughters of the rising middle class, and "houses of mercy", providing shelter for poor youth and women in Dublin and other cities who were in danger of being exploited. They were called upon by bishops in several major epidemics of cholera to nurse people in homes and in the public hospitals.<ref name=":0">Evelyn Bolster, RSM, 1964. ''The Sisters of Mercy in the Crimean War''. Cork: The Mercier Press.</ref>

Their services were in much demand. McAuley opened the first Convent of Mercy in England at [[Bermondsey]] on 19 November 1839 for the education of children and the visitation of the poor, sick, and needy. Mother [[Mary Clare Moore]] was appointed Superior. The convent was designed in the 'Gothic Style' by [[Augustus Pugin]], his first purpose-designed religious community building. It was destroyed during [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ourladyofmercy.org.uk/homepage/who-we-are/introduction/|title=Beginnings of the Order – Institute of Our Lady of Mercy|website=Ourladyofmercy.org.uk|access-date=4 November 2021}}</ref>

In May 1842, at the request of [[Michael Anthony Fleming|Bishop Fleming]], a small colony of Sisters of Mercy crossed the Atlantic to found the congregation at [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's, Newfoundland]]. In 1846, the sisters arrived in [[Perth]], Australia. In the United States, the first community of Sisters of Mercy was established in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, in 1843, followed by [[Providence, Rhode Island]], in 1851.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conley |first=Patrick T. |title=When Rhode Island Received Mercy |url=http://smallstatebighistory.com/rhode-island-received-mercy/ |access-date=17 September 2022 |website=Online Review of Rhode Island History|date=4 May 2018 }}</ref> Sisters from Limerick opened a house in [[Glasgow]] in 1849 and a band from [[Carlow]], Irland arrived in [[New Zealand]], in 1850. In 1860, [[St Catharine's Convent, Edinburgh|St Catharine's Convent]] was founded in Edinburgh and in 1868, the English community established houses in [[Shrewsbury]] and on the island of [[Guernsey]].<ref name=Austin>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10199a.htm Austin, Mary Stanislas. "Sisters of Mercy." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 2 October 2015.{{PD-notice}}</ref>