One of the members of this most exclusive quintet is St. Mary MacKillop, the first Australian ... priest to help him found schools for poor children throughout Australia. Taking the name Mary ...

MacKillop was the first of eight children born to Scottish immigrants ... She took the religious name St. Mary of the Cross, and founded what would go on to be the Congregation of the Sisters ...

Ignatia asked in amazement. “Yes,” I nodded. “I want all the help I can get.” With St. Mary MacKillop, Catholics now have a patron saint for the untold numbers of survivors of sexual abuse ...

Her parents, Flora and Alexander MacKillop, were Catholic immigrants from Scotland. Mary, the eldest of eight children ... order of nuns - the Sisters of St Joseph - devoted to teaching the ...