During the very early years, Mary MacKillop was a teacher there. It is morally impossible that Mary never came across a little Catholic girl in a town of that size, and it is hard to imagine that ...

Mary MacKillop, lover of the crucified Christ, had never been without the Cross. Besides ill health she had to bear human opposition, calumny and rejection. With the passing of the years the human ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia is celebrating the 10th anniversary this year of the canonization of the country’s first and only saint, St. Mary MacKillop. The pioneering religious sister ...

"Today, 100 years after her passing, the work that Mary MacKillop began continues through ... Her canonisation is expected to take place sometime in early 2011.

MARY MacKillop should officially become Australia's first saint in the early hours of Saturday morning ... Heart in Penola in 1866 has taken 85 years. ''It's very exciting,'' Melbourne Vicar ...

Mary MacKillop has officially ... the first school co-established by Mary Mackillop in 1866, decorated with strands of Mother Mary's hair, kept for 101 years since her death in 1909.

Diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in early 1993, the Lake Macquarie ... What she doesn't know is why she was picked by Mary MacKillop. For the past five years, Mr and Mrs Evans have lived ...

just over 50 years after her excommunication had been lifted, her cause for canonization was opened. She was declared a saint by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. The life of Mary MacKillop, this brave ...

VATICAN CITYVATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI approved sainthood for Mother Mary MacKillop on Friday ... bishop who punished her recanted three years later and she was exonerated by a church ...

Australia is celebrating the 10th anniversary this year of the canonization of the country's first and only saint, St. Mary MacKillop ... for a little more than 50 years. Her father had studied ...