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Mary Reibey
transported to Australia as convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by her contemporaries as a community role model and became legendary as a successful businesswoman in the colony. -
Sisters of Mercy
The Religious Sisters of Mercy are members of a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute has about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations. -
Sisters of Charity
Their institutions cared for the sick and poor and welcomed all creeds. In 1834 they founded St Vincent's Dublin, the first hospital run by religious women in the English speaking world. -
The Church acts
the advancement of the Christian Religion and the promotion of good morals in the Colony of New South Wales it is expedient to encourage the observance of Public Worship and for this purpose to authorize the issue from the Revenue of the said Colony of sums to be applied in aid of the building of Churches and Chapels and of the maintenance of Ministers of Religion. -
Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm was a hero because she always helped people and fought for women's rights. She even got into helping people as a child. She let people stay at her house, no matter who they were. -
Christian Brothers
The Christian Brothers ran the children's homes Bindoon, Castledare Special School, Castledare, Clontarf, Subiaco Boys' Orphanage and Tardun Farm School in Western Australia. Started arriving in 1843. -
Society of St Vincent de Paul
The Society of St Vincent de Paul is an international voluntary organization in the Catholic Church, founded in 1844 for the sanctification of its members by personal service of the poor. -
St Johns Cathedral Western Australia
John's Pro-Cathedral is located at 18 Victoria Avenue in Perth, Western Australia. It is the earliest Roman Catholic church building in Western Australia. First foundation laid in 1844. -
Old St Stephen’s Church (Queensland)
Old St Stephens Church is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church at 249 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by A W Pugin and built from 1849 to 1850 by Alexander Goold and Andrew Petrie. It is also known as Pugin Chapel. -
Gold rushes
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. -
St Francis’ Church (Victoria)
St Francis' Church on the corner of Lonsdale Street and Elizabeth Street, is the oldest Catholic church in Victoria, Australia. The main body of the church is one of very few buildings in central Melbourne which was built before the Victorian gold rush of 1851. -
The Good Samaritan Sisters
The Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, colloquially known as the "Good Sams", is a Roman Catholic congregation of religious women commenced by Bede Polding, OSB, Australia’s first Catholic bishop, in Sydney in 1857. -
Mary Mackillop
Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross. Of Scottish descent, she was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. She opened a school in a stable on 19 March 1866, wearing a simple black dress as a sign of a radical life change. -
Fr Julian Tenison Woods
Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods, commonly referred to as Father Woods, was a Catholic priest and geologist, active in Australia. With Mary MacKillop, he co-founded the Congregation of Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola in 1866. -
Presentation Sisters
The Presentation Sisters were founded in 1775 by Sister Nano Nagle to meet the needs of the poor in penal Ireland. They came to “the ends of the earth” in Australia in 1866, in Victoria in 1873 and in Dandenong in 1912. -
Establishment of the Sisters of St Joesph
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, often called the "Josephites" or "Brown Joeys", were founded in Penola, South Australia, in 1866 by Mary MacKillop and the Rev. Julian Tenison Woods. -
Sectarian violence of the Duke Edinburgh
The visitor was 23 year-old Prince Alfred, the second son of Queen Victoria. News of the royal visit took four weeks to reach Australia, and the prince had already set out on his voyage. Many people were angered by this and this led to violence in Australia towards the duke of Edinburgh -
St Johns Tasmania.
The foundation stone was layed in 1835 and blessed by Polding before he departed for Sydney, the first formal act of a catholic bishop. Money was raised by locals and contributed to by the government, enabling construction to be completed by 1837. Gothic in style, rectangular in shape and decorated with architectural details found in many English churches.
