News: 150 years of the Sisters of Mercy North Sydney

She arrived at the Rocks on 15 November 1865 and soon moved to a rented cottage at North Sydney (1873) and set up a boarding school. The small boarding school was not big enough to meet the needs of the local community so Elizabeth purchased a much larger house called MASALOU and the Sisters moved there and opened a school. The Convent was named Monte Sant’ Angelo.