Mary MacKillop

At St Mary's school, our whole school went to celebrate Saint Mary MacKillop's feast day at Church.

Who is Mary MacKillop ?
Mary MacKillop’s full name is Mary Helen MacKillop. She was also called St Mary of the Cross. She was a Australian nun who was chosen to be a Saint by the Catholic Church. She was born in January 15th 1842 in Victoria and died on August 8th 1909.

What did Mary MacKillop do ?
Mary MacKillop’s first job was a clerk when she was fourteen, she then worked as a governess looking after her cousins and teaching them their lessons. She loved children and later became a school teacher.

How did Mary MacKillop become a saint ?
In June 1995 Mary MacKillop was known as a saint by Pope John Paul ||. In 1866 Mary MacKillop and Father Tenison Woods started the religious order of the sisters of Saint Joseph of the sacred hearts [the Josephites]. In 1867 Mary MacKillop became a nun- Sister Mary of the cross.

                                     

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa                                                                                         

We have been learning about saints this year.
I did Mother Teresa because she helped a lot people and she also healed people.
It was pretty hard searching up her facts but it was easy to write them.

Mother Teresa was born in August 26 1910. Mother Teresa's birth name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Mother Teresa lived in India for 18 years and she was a citizen of India. In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. Teresa died in 1997 at age 87. Mother Teresa was born in Uskub, Skopje, the capital city of the Republic of Macedonia. She was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. After several years of being sick with heart, lung and kidney problems, Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87 because she got heart failure.