It is a little known fact that a brother of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop worked in the Melbourne railway system in the early 1860s, just a few years after the first train service ran in Australia in 1854.
Mary MacKillop’s girls - The way they were and the way they are now
Friday 7 January 2011
They may come from far flung parts of the world but a group of women gathering in Sydney this week has a unique bond. They are celebrating 50 years as members of the Sisters of St Joseph, the religious congregation co-founded by Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop.
Given the immense love that Mary MacKillop demonstrated towards all people and especially youth, it was appropriate that a party of 110 people representing the Victorian Catholic educational community made the pilgrimage to attend the canonisation of Australia’s first saint in Rome on 17 October.
It may be an overused cliché, but the experience of attending the canonisation of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop in Rome on 17 October was the trip and experience of a lifetime!
Saints canonised with St Mary of the Cross MacKillop (part 5)
Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 21
BY David Schütz
The final in our series on people canonised on 17 October. Born into a wealthy noble family in Italy almost 400 years before St Mary of the Cross MacKillop was born, St Battista could not have come from more different family circumstances than St Mary.
Kairos: Volume 22, Issue 2
Friday 7 January 2011
Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 22
Friday 19 November 2010