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An Amalgamation:
( 1) 1 'Under the rule, originally established by the
foundress, a Convent of t:ercy was an indepenclent House,
electing its own ~uperior and training its own novices. In
more recent years, however, the need for centralisation in
government foP X"eligious communi ties, especially in the
equ:l nt of' the novitiate has made i tsel:f :felt, with the
result that in sowe c ountPies the ;3 :1 sters of Eercy, who
are under Papal jurisdiction, have been organised into a
general ate, 'Nhilst in others, their convents have been
grouped together v;i thin a diocese under one Superior, with
a Cowman novitiate, as the first step, it is hoped, of' reorganisation
covering a vtiuer area." Thus in 1927 His
Grace, Archbishop, Hedwo:Jd, desirous of placing all the
Convents of r ..:ercy in the .-".rchdiocese unc1er one Superior,
amalgamated the H.eef'ton, \lestport and Grani ty Convents with
St. tlaPy 1 s, Hill Street, '.lnder the present, I.;other I'.I.
Francis
Doyle as Superior General o:f the amalgamated Communities.
It may be mentioned here that this lceen enthusiast in recognition
of her services in the interests of Education,
received a Goronc;tion Leclal, Jt.me 1937 !'rom their Eajesties
the King and Queen.
Reefto!l.'- 1881 :
(2) u,~uartz x•ee:fs o.iscoverecL at i;;urpay' s Creek some sixty-
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1 • English Catholic 11 T iri1es Dec. 11 th 1937.
2. I.Iarist tlessenger, Page 9, Sept. 1st, 1931. (:a.ev. K. 1\IcGrath.S.M.
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