PAUL, Reverend Mother Mary

Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, Arizona) Wednesday, January 4, 1922, p. 1 Mother Paul's Wonderful Life Has Been Ended The Reverend Mother Mary Paul, superior of the order of the Sisters of Mercy, passed away on the evening of January 1 at St. Joseph's hospital, Phoenix, after an illness of only a few days. Word of her death was received by members and friends of the order yesterday morning. Mother Paul was born at French Park, Rosscommon, Ireland, in the year 1857, and entered the convent of the order at the age of 22. Shortly thereafter, she came direct from Ireland to Arizona. In 1886, Mother Paul became superior of the province of Arizona and New Mexico and directed her efforts to the establishment of hospitals and schools. One of her first achievements was the founding of the Mercy hospital on North Marina street, Prescott, from which has grown the present splendidly equipped institution in West Prescott. Other institutions which stand as monuments to her zeal and energy are the Sisters of St. Joseph hospital, Phoenix, and the Mercy hospital, Nogales. Mother Paul was beloved by all who knew her by reason of her beautiful character, her sympathetic understanding, her Christian spirit of helpfulness and her all embracing beneficence. In the death of Mother Paul, the community of which she was the head has sustained an irreparable loss and the state at large an honored and noble pioneer woman.