Followed categories will be added to My News. Mary MacKillop, now Saint Mary of the Cross, started a school in a stable in Penola, a small town in South Australia's southeast, in 1866. The block ...

After small beginnings in a school building that had been a stable, the Sisters of St Joseph ... and honored him as a model and helper at all times. Mary MacKillop, lover of the crucified Christ ...

Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842 ... at first in a converted stable and later in this more substantial stone building. A year later the pair formed a new religious order of nuns ...

Mary MacKillop is to be canonised on Sunday October ... starts the first free Catholic school in Penola, at first in a stable and later in a more substantial stone building. 1867: Joins with ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AUSTRALIA'S highest-ranking Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, has urged the Pope to make Mary MacKillop the country's first saint.

But thousands of pilgrims and tourists flock to Penola to pray to Mary MacKillop, who set up her first school in a disused stable. Claire Larkin, who works at Penola's Mary Mackillop ...

St Mary's brother John spent time with his older sister in Penola and used his carpentry skills to transform an old stable into the first school she opened. John MacKillop travelled to New Zealand ...

The priest who was widely quoted here and here and here as stating that part of the reason for the 1870 excommunication of the soon-to-be-canonized Blessed Mary MacKillop was her participation ...

DROVES of Catholics from Victoria are preparing for a pilgrimage to Rome for Mary MacKillop's canonisation. The October 17 event is expected to draw thousands of Australians across the globe to ...