Mary Ward was declared "Venerable" by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 December 2009
present day
1631On 13 January the Bull of Suppression came out and all houses were disbanded, but Sisters could stay in Paradeiser House in Munich. From there Mary was taken and imprisoned in the Anger convent as a‘heretic’. She was in prison from 7 February until 14
Dr. Michael O’Connor, First Bishop of Ballarat,1874-1883, asked the Loreto Sisters to come to Ballarat
