Mary MacKillop's Significant Contributions towards Establishing the Catholic Church in Colonial Australia

By ajames13

  • Mary was born in Fitzroy Melbourne

  • 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 becomes the first nun and Mother Superior of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, an order of nuns created by Fr Woods.

  • Mary and Fr woods decide to build a Catholic school in the SA town

  • Mary MacKillop and five other Sisters of Saint Joseph arrived in Queensland

  • The Josephites were teaching at St Mary’s School, South Brisbane

  • by July they had opened three more schools, two in Brisbane and the other one in the country town of Maryborough.

  • The St joseph hade some people joining By August 1871, that number had swelled to 120 women. And got one school in New Zealand.

  • The Sisters have garnered enough support in the community to run 40 schools.

  • the Sisters established fourteen schools, an orphanage in Queensland

  • Pope Leo XIII gives his final approval to the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart

  • Mary MacKillop dies aged 67