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  • First Holy Communion

    Mary Mackillop received her First Holy Communion on 15 August 1850 at the age of eight

  • first teaching job

    Mary Mackillop accepted a job teaching the children of Portland, Victoria in 1862

  • new school

    A new school was opened at Yankalilla, South Australia in October 1867 by Mary Mackillop and her sisters.

  • ROME

    MacKillop travelled to Rome in 1873 to seek papal approval for the religious congregation and was encouraged in her work by Pope Pius IX.

  • New convent

    MacKillop founded a convent and base for the Sisters of St Joseph in Petersburg on 16 January 1897.

  • Death