Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy

The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy (Congregatio Sororum Beatae Mariae Misericordiae (lat)), (Zgromadzenie Sióstr Matki Bożej Miłosierdzia (pol)) - was founded by Mother Teresa Eva Potocka (1814–1881) in Warsaw, Poland on November 1, 1862.

[1] Mother Teresa Ewa, née Countess Potocka of the Sułkowska (family) princes, after eight months of practice in the House of Mercy in the Laval (France) returned to Poland and – at the invitation of Archbishop Zygmunt Szczesny Feliński – took over the shelter (Dom Schronienia pol) in Warsaw for girls failed morally.

In August 1925, in the religious house in Warsaw Helena Kowalska, later Saint Faustina began her postulancy and on April 30, 1926 took her perpetual vows and became a member of the Congregation.

[3] See Divine Mercy Sanctuary (Płock) In 1986, Cardinal Bernard Law during the pilgrimage to the Shrine in Kraków-Łagiewniki, asked Mother General, Sr. Paulina Słomka, to send several sisters to Boston to create a community of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.

The three sisters came to Boston on September 15, 1988, where he set up temporarily at the convent in Our Lady of Czestochowa parish.