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| − | '''Mount St. Mary Convent''' (also known as the '''Convent of Mercy''') was located at the corner of West Seventh and | + | [[Image:Sisters-of-mercy-convent.JPG|thumb|300px|The Convent of Mercy in the 1890s.]] |
| + | '''Mount St. Mary Convent''' (also known as the '''Convent of Mercy''') was located at the corner of West Seventh and South Louisiana streets in Little Rock, Arkansas. | ||
====Mount St. Mary Convent==== | ====Mount St. Mary Convent==== | ||
| − | + | Irish bishop [[Andrew Byrne]] of St. Mary's Mission near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, called thirteen members of the [[Sisters of Mercy]] from Naas, Ireland, to establish St. Mary's Convent in Little Rock in 1850. The convent had a chapel, music room, and a drawing and reception room by 1881. | |
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| + | In 1886 Mother [[Alphonsus Carton]] supervised eleven sisters, three novices, and four postulants at the convent. | ||
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| + | ====St. Joseph's School==== | ||
====Mount St. Mary Academy==== | ====Mount St. Mary Academy==== | ||
| − | [[Mount St. Mary Academy]] was a private, Catholic high school attached to the convent in 1851 by the | + | [[Mount St. Mary Academy]] was a private, Catholic high school attached to the convent in 1851 by the Sisters of Mercy of the [[Diocese of Little Rock]]. The academy in the late nineteenth century consisted of the school, two dining rooms, a kitchen, laundry facilities, bath rooms, and a hen house. The school remains the oldest continuously operating private educational institution in the state of Arkansas. The school moved to its current home in [[Pulaski Heights]] in 1908. |
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| + | ''Student attendance figures:'' | ||
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| + | *1886 - 139 | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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| + | *''Hoffman's Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Clergy List'' (M.H. Wiltzlus Co., 1886), 229. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:49, 10 April 2010
Mount St. Mary Convent (also known as the Convent of Mercy) was located at the corner of West Seventh and South Louisiana streets in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Mount St. Mary Convent
Irish bishop Andrew Byrne of St. Mary's Mission near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, called thirteen members of the Sisters of Mercy from Naas, Ireland, to establish St. Mary's Convent in Little Rock in 1850. The convent had a chapel, music room, and a drawing and reception room by 1881.
In 1886 Mother Alphonsus Carton supervised eleven sisters, three novices, and four postulants at the convent.
St. Joseph's School
Mount St. Mary Academy
Mount St. Mary Academy was a private, Catholic high school attached to the convent in 1851 by the Sisters of Mercy of the Diocese of Little Rock. The academy in the late nineteenth century consisted of the school, two dining rooms, a kitchen, laundry facilities, bath rooms, and a hen house. The school remains the oldest continuously operating private educational institution in the state of Arkansas. The school moved to its current home in Pulaski Heights in 1908.
Student attendance figures:
- 1886 - 139
References
- Hoffman's Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Clergy List (M.H. Wiltzlus Co., 1886), 229.
