Busse Library Digital Archive

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- The Dedication of the Shrine of Our Mother of Sorrows, the Mount Mercy Grotto.
- William H. Lightner, the contractor who built Mount Mercy Academy (Warde Hall), received permission to create an elaborate grotto on the Sisters of Mercy's land. By 1930, the grotto's theme focused on the Virgin Mary under the title, "The Mother...
- Mount Mercy Photographs
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- Marble statue of the Mother of Sorrows, Mount Mercy grotto.
- A Carrara marble statue of the Mother of Sorrows (Virgin Mary), sculpted by the Italian artist Marcello Rebechini, was bought by the Sisters of Mercy and added to the grotto site in May, 1951. In its original state, the statue represented the...
- Mount Mercy Photographs
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- The Sisters of Mercy in the grotto, 1950s.
- A 1950s gathering of the Sisters of Mercy at the Shrine of Our Mother of Sorrows, the Mount Mercy grotto.
- Mount Mercy Photographs
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- Side view of McAuley Hall, the first campus dormitory.
- In March, 1955, the Sisters of Mercy began work on a new, college dormitory; the cornerstone laying ceremony followed on October 3 of that year. In September 1956, McAuley Hall welcomed college students into its seven-story structure; the first...
- Mount Mercy Photographs