Mary Mackillop's life

  • Birth

    Born in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
  • invitation

    Accepted invitation to Penola.
  • Queensland

    Arrived in Queensland.
  • Josephites

    Josephite started teaching at St. Mary School, South Brisbane.
  • Crisis!

    Major Crisis when the bishop excommunicated Mary from the church and attempted to disband the new congregation.
  • NSW

    first foundation in NSW.
  • Schools

    Three more schools were established, two Brisbane, the other one in Maryborough.
  • Schools

    Fourteen more schools were established.
  • Withdraw

    The sisters had been forced to withdraw from Queensland and travelled to New south Wales with Mary MacKillop and spent Christmas in Sydney.
  • Rome

    Rome finally approved the congregation, it moved mother house to Sydney
  • Queensland

    Returned to Queensland in Clermont, Rockhampton
  • Decision

    The the sisters were faced with the difficult decision of remaining with their own congregation under Foundress Mary Mackillop
  • Western Australia

    the brown sisters of St. Joseph went to Western Australia.
  • Death

    She tragically died of illness
  • Cannonisation

    She was canonized as Australia's first saint, but the canonization ceremony was postponed to later that year.