'Mary MacKillop's Significant Contributions towards Establishing the Catholic Church in Colonial Australia'
By ccrisham
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when she was born 15th January 1842
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Mary and Julian Tennison Woods set up first free catholic school in Penola in a converted stable
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Mary started to wear a simple black dress and began congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph
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During the next ten years, the Sisters established fourteen schools, an orphanage at Mackay.
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Between 1870 and 2003, the Josephites opened sixty-nine Parish primary schools all over Australia
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1870 the Josephites were teaching at St Mary’s School, South Brisbane, and by July they had opened three more schools, two in Brisbane
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By 1883, they'd managed to open a school in New Zealand
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Between 1902 and 1915 five more schools were opened in the diocese
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She died on August 8, 1909
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The Canonization of Mary MacKillop was celebrated in every diocese of Queensland and in November 2010
