Sisters of Mercy

And I held a sign at

our Catholic school as the Sisters of Mercy were across the court and as all the parents were watching, hundreds of parents in the Chisholm gym, and I held a sign that said, Trojans don't burst under pressure.

while everybody was watching, I was at center court.

That, of course, caused Sister Virginia to call me into her office the following morning to question the sign and what the innuendo was.

Me, too, Judah.

See, I thought I was confused.

I grew up Southern Baptist, raised in a Jewish neighborhood, and educated in a Catholic school by the Sisters of Mercy, where I held signs that said Trojans don't burst under pressure at

basketball games.

Old Hill was married before he came back to California.

The son will be taken care of by the Sisters of Mercy at St. Barnabas.

Mr. Hill left England and returned to his native California.

Betty Browning.

Mm-hmm.

And so he called the Sisters of Mercy who had opened Mercy Hospital and said, would you ever open a maternity hospital for poverty women or women who aren't married that are having children? And then we'll work out the adoption piece afterwards.

So that's how Misericordia started.

We were a home for one-wed mothers and stayed that way pretty much for about 50 years until we had so many unadoptable children.

They've had quite stressful lives.

Even since Sister, Sister Angela Mary of the Sisters of Mercy in Brisbane, who ran the Mas- the Mater Hospital group.

You know, she had a very stressful life, but it's how you respond to stress.

So all these people that I spoke to, they get over it.

Uh, but one thing that we did do for our athletics team is we created a small little shamrock on the large shamrock on the green that they could touch with a Latin term before every single game.

So they have the luck of the Sisters of Mercy, the luck of the Irish, the luck of anybody who'll listen as they go out to their game.

So that, that's probably my favorite.

That may not be a piece of swag, but it's an identity.

We, we came from, you know, we came from Carlow, Ireland.

So last year we went to Ireland, and we filmed our roots, and we started from the first steps of the Sister of Mercy as they stepped off the land at Carlow and came to Pittsburgh, and we documented that.

And so it's really positioning ourselves as that global university, but telling it through the lens of those Sisters of Mercy on the journey that when they came to Pittsburgh the first day, on a dark night, they got to work right away and started feeling the homeless or feeding the homeless, and right away, you know, Mercy Hospital from UPMC was born.

So it's really telling that broad history of who we are and then connecting people to that brand.