Mary MacKillop

✶January 15, 1842

†August 8, 1909

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About their life

Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister. She was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with Fr Julian Tenison-Woods, she founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor.

Australian religious sister and saint (1842–1909)

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Biography from the article Mary MacKillop on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.