Mary Mackillop Significant Events

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  • Mary Mackillop met Father Julian Tenison Woods

  • Mary Mackillop met Father Julian Tenison Woods

  • Mary Mackillop founded the Sister’s of the Sacred Hearts

  • Mary became a nun

  • Mary and the Saint Joseph sisters arrived in Queensland

  • The Josephites were teaching at St Mary’s School at South Brisbane. They had also opened 3 more schools, 2 in Brisbane 1 in Mary borough.

  • The Josiphites opened 69 parish primary schools and 46 parish secondary schools.

  • The sisters formed the Diocese of Rockhampton

  • The archdiocese of Brisbane commissioned a Shrine to Mary Mackillop in St Stephen’s Chapel.

  • Mary Mackillop was believed to perform a miracle curing someone from cancer.

  • The Archbishop announced Saint Mary of the cross as the patroness of the Archbishop of Brisbane.

  • Mary got canonized and officially became a saint.