SISTERS OF MERCY AT PARRAMATTA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 81, 14 November 1874, Page 14

SISTERS OF MERCY AT PARRAMATTA.

We have the pleasure of announcing to our readers that a branch of the good Sisters of Mercy was established lately at Parramatta. The special object of the Sisters is to establish an infant school in connection with the church. They liave Becured an admirable site, immediately opposite the main entrance to Sc. Patrick's Churoh. The Sisters opened their little school on Monday, the sth of October, with thirty-two infants, and on that day week (October -fa' the number was increased to sixty-nine. We understand that the Sisters are making arrangements for the education of one hundred infanta ; and we see no reason to doubt that that number will attend their school before many weeks, when the results of their admirable system of training infants becomes better known to the parents and guardians of children in Parramatta. The Sisters of Mercy also conduct the devotions and hymnsjof the children at the children's Mass on Sundays and festivals.

An expense of £350 has been incurred in effecting the establish* ment of this branch of the Order of Mercy at Parramatta, and the Coadjutor - Archbishop, to help in meeting this expense, kindly, preached in behalf of the Parramatta Infant School on Sunday evening, the 25th October, at 7 o'clock, in St. Patrick's Church, Parramatta. A lar/»e and attentive congregation were present, attracted both by the good object of promoting infant education of a high order, and by tke deßire to hear Archbishop Vaughau enforcing the claims of the infants and of the religious teachers from the pulpit of St. Patrick's. We cordially felicitate the Catholics of Parramatta on the priceless advantage of possessing the Sisters of Mercy amongst them, and we wish the good Belf-sacrificing sisters God-speed.-~' Freeman's journal.