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Mary Frances Xavier Warde R.S.M. (1810-1884) was one of the original Sisters of Mercy, a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women founded in Ireland by Catherine McAuley, and the foundress of the order in the United States. She also served as appointed superior of the convent at Carlow in Ireland, and helped establish convents at Naas and Wexford in that country.