{"id":4583,"date":"2011-09-20T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2011-09-20T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:10:12","slug":"farewell-sisters-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4583","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Sisters of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sisters of Mercy first came to Abingdon in 1860. There was a great need at the time to educate the children of Catholic familes, and also &#8211; as it turned out &#8211; to provide education for the children of the poor &#8211; irrespective of religion. <\/p>\n<p>You can see memorials to individual sisters in St. Edmunds Churchyard.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a living legacy in St Edmunds Primary School, and Our Lady&#8217;s School, and the many thousands of people who have the Sisters to thank for their education.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sister of Mercy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11092001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThese pictures were taken last Friday, and show the last two Sisters taking their leave of Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sister of Mercy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11092002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFather Jamie, the Parish Priest at Our Lady and St. Edmunds, Abingdon, was there to thank them for their work here among us &#8211; <i> A GREAT WORK<\/i>. I wrote more about their history back in <a href=\"http:\/\/abingdon2006.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/sisters-of-mercy.html\">abingdon2006.blogspot.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sisters of Mercy first came to Abingdon in 1860. There was a great need at the time to educate the children of Catholic familes, and also &#8211; as it turned out &#8211; to provide education for the children of the poor &#8211; irrespective of religion. You can see memorials to individual sisters in St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}