Single memorial to honour late Sisters
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INDIVIDUAL crosses marking the graves of nuns at a Moray convent have been removed and will be replaced with one single memorial.
Work on the new monument in the cemetery at Greyfriars Convent, on Elgin's Abbey Street, is underway.
The decision was taken by the Sisters of Mercy, who lived at the convent for more than a century up until they left in 2010.
They said subsidence at the site was affecting some of the stone crosses, erected to mark the graves of the sisters of religion.
The Sisters of Mercy, who are now based in London, said the new memorial would list the names of all of those buried in the cemetery, which lies next to the convent's Rose Garden.
A spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen confirmed it was not a Diocesan or Parish matter, but a decision proper to the Sisters of Mercy.
In August 2010, it was announced that the Sisters of Mercy were leaving the convent with the four, more elderly sisters, moving into a more manageable home.
The building lay empty until April 2013, when it was confirmed that a group of Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia, based in Nashville, Tennessee, had agreed to make it their home.
The Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia arrived in August of that year and have been working across the diocese since.
