The Callaghans were childless and upon Mr. In 1803 Catherine was invited to live in the home of William and Catherine Callaghan as a companion to Mrs. When her mother Elinor died in 1798, Catherine chose to live in the home of relatives, some of whom were non-Catholic and had little tolerance for her pious practices. Her father, James McGauley, died in 1783 when Catherine was just five years old, but his compassion for the poor-especially children and families who lived nearby-was a lifelong example for his eldest daughter. McAuley was born in Dublin, Ireland, in September 1778, to a prosperous Catholic family.
The Durango Public Library now occupies the former hospital site.Ī Brief History of the Sisters of Mercy Catherine The old Mercy Hospital building was demolished in 2006 and the land was donated to the city of Durango. The 212,000-square-foot facility is state-of-the-art, with the latest medical technologies, an attached 153,000-square-foot medical office building, ambulatory surgical center, and plenty of room to expand in the future. Plans were drawn for a brand new facility, to be built in the newly annexed Grandview area of Durango. By the late 1990s Mercy Medical Center was operating at capacity, but unable to expand because downtown Durango had literally grown up around it. Major additions took place in 1892, 1931, and 1952, and over the following 50 years, the building, located at 375 East Park Avenue, went through various additions and remodels, while older sections of the facility were demolished to make room for the new. In 1884, a new building, often referred to as the "stone hospital" because of its native sandstone construction, was finished and the hospital's name was changed to Mercy Hospital.
It was located along the Animas River in what was then an open field north of old downtown Durango. Although it had only six-beds and was attached to a boarding school, the small hospital opened to great fanfare on September 1. The first hospital in the Four Corners region was Mercy Hospital of the San Juans, started by the Sisters of Mercy in 1882.
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