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Mary and her family experienced financial hardship due to Alexander Mackillop declaring himself bankrupt a little bit before Mary was born.
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Mary was born and started her life with her loving family.
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Mary completed her third holy sacrament, her first eucharist.
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Mary began working only at the age of 14 to help and support her family financially.
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Mary became a governess to the children of Alexander Cameron at Penola where she met Father Julian Tenison Woods who became her spiritual leader.
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She starts her teaching career at Portland Catholic Denominational School which means that she had been on track to becoming a teacher and she was also on track to becoming a nun because she was teaching at a catholic school.
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Together with Fr Julian Tenison Woods Mary started the first free catholic school in Penola.
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Mary joined Fr Woods again to establish a new religious order of nuns, The Sisters of Saint Joseph
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Bishop Sheil of Adelaide excommunicates Mary on the 22nd of September because he felt that she was taking over his role and because she was a woman.
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Bishop Sheil later removed the excommunication 22 weeks later on the 23rd of February 1872 seven days before he died.
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Mary suffers a stroke and becomes paralysed on her right-hand side. She is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
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Mary dies on August 8 at Mount Street in North Sydney and is buried at Gore Hill Cemetery.
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Mary was canonised in 2010 in Rome on October the 17th and became Australia first ever saint.
