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Edmund Rice is born in Westcourt, Callan, Co. Kilkenny
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Joins a group of Young Catholics gathered for prayer after his wife and father die
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He buys his first bible
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He founds the Trinitarian Orphan Society near New Street
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Edmund takes five vows for one year as a member of the Society of the Presentation. Edmund becomes known as "Brother Ignatius" in the community and is appointed Superior.
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Born in Dublin, Ireland as Clara Frayne
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Opens his first school in England, at Preston in Lancashire. More schools follow in Manchester, Liverpool, Sunderland and London.
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Julian Tennison Woods is born
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Enters the Insitute of Mercy and takes her baptismal name, Ursula
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She is appointed Superior in Newfoundland
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She is born in Melbourne, Australia
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Edmund dies at Mount Sion, Waterford
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She moves to Perth
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She opens the first secondary school in Western Australia
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Begins lecturing/professing at St George's
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Ends his professing
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At the age of 23, he arrives in Tasmania
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In Adelaide, he is ordained by Francis Murphy
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Moves to Penola to serve as governess for her children
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Moves to Penola as governess for her cousins
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Born at his father's substantial tenant farm in Cork, Ireland
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Mary MacKillop and John Tennison Woods co-found the Congregation of Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart
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She takes her vows and becomes the first superior mother of the Mercy Sisters.
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She founds the St Vincent de Paul's orphange
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She dies in Melbourne, Australia
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John Tennison Woods dies
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Takes up a lectureship at St Patrick's College
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She dies on Bourne Street (North Sydney)
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At his inauguration address in Melbourne on Easter Sunday, he says that he hopes to be a good Australian and to see Catholics share in the good things in private and public life. He begins to campaign for state aid to Catholic schools.
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Consecrated Archbishop of Melbourne
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Refused entry to cities in Ireland and England with large populations.
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Continues to support Australian Catholics as part of the Labour Party
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He dies aged 99