Mary Mackillop significant events

  • mary mackillop was born

    15 January 1842 Mary was born in Fitzroy Melbourne
  • 1861 MARY MET FATHER TENASIN WOODS

    1861 MARY MET FATHER TENASIN WOODS
  • mary mackillop made a school

    1866
    Together, Mary and Father Woods opened the first free Catholic school in Penola in 1866, at first in a converted stable
  • mary mackillop made a school in queensland

    1870
    St Joseph's School Kangaroo Point was founded by Mary MacKillop in 1870. It is one of the oldest Primary Schools in Brisbane
  • mary was excamunicated from the church

    1871
    In 1871, after only four years as a nun, she was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church and turned out onto the street with no money and nowhere to go
  • mary mackillop made a school in new zealand

    1880s
    Mary MacKillop's focus first turned to Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 1880s, when a French Marist priest, Fr Fauve,
  • mary died

    8 August 1909
    Mary Mackillop died at the age of 67 at north Sydney
    2010
  • mary mackillop became a saint

    Mary Mackillop got canonised in 2010 then she became a saint