Mary MacKillop is to be canonised on Sunday October 17 in Rome, making her Australia's first Catholic saint. Here are some details about her life and road to sainthood. 1842: Born in Brunswick ...

Mary MacKillop, lover of the crucified Christ ... the joyful love of the dear will of God which had marked her whole life. That love of God had filled her heart and overflowed to all those ...

He was involved in research into the life of Mary MacKillop, and would talk of hardly anything else. I knew something about her work but little about the details and less about her character and ...

But the full story is that Mary MacKillop was excommunicated out of “revenge,” in the words of one priest familiar with her life, for her part (and her order's part) in uncovering a case of ...

Among the crowd were 8,000 Australians there to honor one of those canonized, a nineteenth-century woman, Mary Mackillop, who devoted her life to education children in Australia’s vast outback.

casting MacKillop as protector of abuse victims would “reduce the extraordinary richness of her work to a very marginal episode in her life.” “The merits of Mother Mary MacKillop ...

Pope Francis praised the evangelization efforts of St. Mary MacKillop, a religious sister who devoted her life to providing Catholic education to the poor in rural Australia. “Mary MacKillop was ...

Among them was an extraordinary religious sister, Mary MacKillop (1842-1909), foundress of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, who dedicated her life to the intellectual and religious ...

Kathleen Evans, 66, is a mother, a grandmother, wife and friend who doesn't know why Mary MacKillop saved her life almost 16 years ago when doctors gave her just months to live. Supported by her ...

"We had a lot of people praying for a miracle of survival for Sophie and we believe Mary was a part of that," Sophie's mother Carolyn told Channel Nine. Sophie, now nine years old, almost died in ...

At the age of 60, Mary MacKillop suffers a stroke and becomes paralysed on her right-hand side. She is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Mary MacKillop dies aged 67, on August 8 ...

At his first general audience in three weeks, Pope Francis praised the evangelization efforts of St. Mary MacKillop, a religious sister who devoted her life to providing Catholic education to the ...