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11 1841, that Mother McAuley's failing health disclosed . alarming symptoms. She died at Baggot Street on November 11th that year. Though teaching is the chief work of the Order of Mercy, yet, when opportunity calls, the Sisters pass from class-room to hospital or sick-bed and, if need be, even to the battlefield. In 1854-6, in 1861, and again in 1899, the Sisters of Mercy by their devoted service to the sick and wounded soldiers won the praise and esteem of all creeds. (1) On Friday, October 27, 1854 the first of several bands of Sisters of Mercy embarked on the "Vectis 11 bound fot the East. With.Florence Nightingale and Miss Stanley they showed themselves indefatigable in their efforts to soothe the awful sufferings of the plague-stricken and the wounded, on battlefield and in hospital, at Balaclava, Scutari, and Inkerrnann. (2) Two of the Sisters, victims of cholera and typhus respectively, are buried on the bleak heights of Balaclava. Again, in the records of the American Civil War, we read of the devotion of the Sisters to the stricken soldiers of their adopted country. (3) In 1900 we find Queen Victoria giving a very cordial reception to the Sisters of Mercy vvho had worked so heroically during 1. Annals of the Sisters of Mercy Vol. 11. p. 129. 2. Ibid. pp. 197-198. 3. Supplement to .N.Z. Catholic Schools Journal, September 1932 (Aucldand. )
12 the siege of Mefeking. The Annals tell that while expressing her gratitude for their kindness to the soldiers, her Majesty pinned the Royal Red Cross on their guimpa. As Mother McAuley had foreseen, the good wor•k she began continued after her death to make rapid progress so that within a hundred years of its foundation the Order of Mercy had spread throughout the English-speaking world. At St. Johns, Newfoundland the first house of the Order was opened in the rtestern Hemisphere and at Pi tts·burg 1843 the first Convent of Mercy in the United States. Soon afterwards not only convents and schools but orphanages, hospitals and homes for young women were established by the Sisters in Amei'ica, Australia, New Zealand. and South Africa. The Centenary of the OI'der was celebrated in 1931 when the following statistics of the Order were presented. Ireland England Scotland Channel Is. Australia New ZealwJ.d ( 1 ) Co:tNENTS OP MERCY 196. 93. 8. 3. 252. 46. Africa B. \Vest Indies North Arne ric a South America Central America Total 1, 507 Convents; 20 ,L-1-62 Nuns. s. 5. 886. 12. 1. Supplement N.Z. Catholic Schools Journal, Septenilier 1932.
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