mary mackilop's journey in Qeensland

By coxenham1

  • mary mackilop met farther woods Tenisonwoods

    Mary Mackillop met fr Julian Tenisonwoods

  • Mary Mackillop and five other sisters arrived in Queensland

    1869 Mary Mackillop and five other sisters arrived in Queensland on 31 December, in 1869

  • mary's school's

    During the next ten years the Sisters established fourteen schools, and a orphanage.

  • more schools

    By mid January 1870 the Josephites were teaching at St Mary’s School, South Brisbane, and by July they had opened three more schools.

  • nine more schools

    Between 1870 and 2003, the Josephites opened sixty-nine Parish primary schools

  • comeing back to qld

    The Sisters of Saint Joseph returned to Queensland in 1900

  • mary comes back to brisbane

    It was not until 1915 that the Sisters were invited to return to the Archdiocese of Brisbane

  • sisters can open more schools

    After 1916 the provision of Catholic education became a pastoral priority of the bishops, and the Sisters of Saint Joseph were invited to open schools in the newly formed parishes in the cities and in the outback towns

  • mary's shrine

    In 1995 the pepole of Brisbane commissioned a Shrine to Mary MacKillop in St Stephen’s Chapel.

  • st mary of the cross

    In 2009 the Archbishop announced Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop as the Patroness of the Archdiocese of Brisbane.