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mary mackilop met farther woods Tenisonwoods
Mary Mackillop met fr Julian Tenisonwoods -
Mary Mackillop and five other sisters arrived in Queensland
1869 Mary Mackillop and five other sisters arrived in Queensland on 31 December, in 1869 -
mary's school's
During the next ten years the Sisters established fourteen schools, and a orphanage. -
more schools
By mid January 1870 the Josephites were teaching at St Mary’s School, South Brisbane, and by July they had opened three more schools. -
nine more schools
Between 1870 and 2003, the Josephites opened sixty-nine Parish primary schools -
comeing back to qld
The Sisters of Saint Joseph returned to Queensland in 1900 -
mary comes back to brisbane
It was not until 1915 that the Sisters were invited to return to the Archdiocese of Brisbane -
sisters can open more schools
After 1916 the provision of Catholic education became a pastoral priority of the bishops, and the Sisters of Saint Joseph were invited to open schools in the newly formed parishes in the cities and in the outback towns -
mary's shrine
In 1995 the pepole of Brisbane commissioned a Shrine to Mary MacKillop in St Stephen’s Chapel. -
st mary of the cross
In 2009 the Archbishop announced Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop as the Patroness of the Archdiocese of Brisbane.