biography
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Mckillop, Mary Helen
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known as Mother Mary of the Cross
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pronunciation:
[muhkilop]
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| lived:
| (1842–1909)
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| biography:
| Religious, born in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. With Father Tenison-Woods she founded in 1866 the Society of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in Penola, South Australia. Excommunicated in 1871, she was reinstated two years later by Pope Pius IX, who approved the Sisterhood. In 1875 she was confirmed as superior-general of the order. The case for her beatification was made in 1925, and in 1975 her cause was formally introduced by the Vatican, when it was announced that she would become Australia's first saint. She was declared venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1992, and her beatification was approved in 1993. |
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