Mary Mackillop

Education was very important to the Catholic Church, and in 1852 in South Australia the government withdrew state aid so the Catholic Church was forced to pay for its own schools. In 1866 there were still only 19 lay staffed schools paid for by local parishes.

In that same year, Mary MacKillop met an English priest, Julian Tenison-Woods and together they co-founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, which was dedicated to looking after poor Catholic children, and providing them with a quality, Catholic education.

It was organized according to the original principle of providing the poor with quality Catholic education as a means of escaping their financial hardship. The Josephites continue to be characterized by living their own lives in poverty, and maintaining a fiercely egalitarian ethos among themselves and in their teaching.

Mary Mackillop was in her lifetime a huge influence in forming the foundations of the Catholic Education system in Australia. She saw the improvement and expansion of education within Australia. She was also a very predominant woman in those times of Australian History acting as a role woman to other women of that time.

The establishment of the order was not without its drama. Yet Mary was a woman always prepared to work hard and was unafraid to stand up to clerical authority. IN her lifetime Mary was accused for alcoholism, prostitution and embezzlement of church funds.

In the early 1960s, over fifty years later, the requisite miracle for her bea

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