'Mary MacKillop's Significant Contributions towards Establishing the Catholic Church in Colonial Australia'
By ipeel1
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Mary was born
Fitzroy Melbourne -
celebrates her first holy communion
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MacKillop stayed for two years
before accepting a job teaching the children of Portland, Victoria in 1862 -
Mary and Julian Tennison Woods
set up first free catholic school in Penola in a converted stable -
Mary started
to wear simple black dress and began congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph -
Mary Mackillop excluded
from the catholic church
because she discovered children were being abused by a priest and went public, -
The sisters have collected
, enough people who agree with her to run 40 schools. One of the best supporters is Jewish Penola resident Emmanuel Solomon. -
they'd managed
they'd managed to open a school in New Zealand -
MacKillop was beatified
by Pope John Paul II -
New South Wales,
New South Wales, Australia; canonized October 17, 2010
