When Val Conlon started to search for a property in Bucharest, Romania, in order to open the first “House of Divine Mercy” for “Divine Mercy in Action” he looked at many houses for sale. Most were unsuitable, until he came to a house ideally suitable.

When he went to negotiate a purchase he discovered it was being sold by an order of religious sisters who were selling to support the “works of mercy” they were doing. They were bringing the destitute and homeless elderly people living on the streets of Bucharest into a shelter they had built.

When he finally closed the sale he approached the Mother Superior and proposed that she allow some of the sisters to work with “Divine Mercy in Action” as its main purpose was to help homeless children and poverty stricken families who couldn’t afford to keep their family together and would be putting their children into orphanages.

The Mother Superior agreed and today “Divine Mercy in Action” work with the sisters in many similar projects, in Romania and Moldova.