Mary MacKillop's Significant Contributions towards Establishing the Catholic Church in Colonial Australia
By hmeehan1
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Mary was born in Melbourne, Fitzroy
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Mary MacKillop met Father Julian Tennison Woods and they decided to set up a catholic school in a convertible stable.
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Mary and Father Julian Tennison Woods set up a school in Penola.
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Mary starts a new religious order called the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
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Mary MacKillop becomes closer to the church and becomes a nun.
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Mary got excommunicated from the church for as excommunicated by the church because she discovered children were being abused by a priest and went public.
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Mary's ex-communication was finally revoked.
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By 1877, the Sisters have garnered enough support in the community to run 40 schools.
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Pope Leo XII gives his final approval of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart for their hard work.
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Mary MacKillop was canonized a saint because she performed two miracles.
