The cache is located further down the road from St Mary MacKillop College, Swan Hill
Thanks to Sparra0907 who did the hide for the series and will maintain the cache.
Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842. When she was in Penola she met Julian Tenison Woods and together they opened the first St Joseph's School in 1866.
Mary MacKillop founded the Sisters of St Joseph to continue this work. Over the many following years, the number of Sisters grew as did their schools. Schools were opened as the needs arose: in country towns, mining towns, cities. The Sisters also became involved in other areas of need including setting up a refuge for women in need and orphanages for children, visiting prisons and working with the sick.
SWAN HILL
Catholic Education commenced in Swan Hill in 1923 when the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart opened Saint Mary’s Primary School adjacent to the local Parish Church in Splatt Street. MacKillop College formally opened in 1987 on the same site as St Mary’s School and operated on that site until the mid-1990’s when the latter moved to a new ‘green site’ in Murlong Street.
St Mary MacKillop College is a Years 7 to 12 coeducational Catholic high school and it is one of eleven such schools in the Diocese of Ballarat. Since its inception in 1985 the college has expanded and now caters for 500 students.
The Sisters of St Joseph have played a key role in the development of the college and even though the Sisters have not been members of the staff since 2009, the college endeavours to maintain the charism of Saint Mary MacKillop.
This connection is further enhanced in our membership of the Association of Josephite Secondary Schools in Australia and New Zealand.
The First Principal of the college was 1985 - 1986: Sister Lynette Young
The college logo depicts a cross as the symbol of the catholic faith and a dove in full flight, representing energy radiating from the spirit within each person. A circle on the logo symbolises the encircling warmth of the sun in Swan Hill. The logo carries the MacKillop motto: In God Our Faith is Constant written in Italian, In Dio Fede Costante.
Mary MacKillop ….
Mary MacKilop's famous saying was "Never see a need without doing something about it"
Well..... there was a need, a geochache in her honour, and something has been done about it!
This is one of many caches placed in significant locations of her story.
Mary died on August 8th, 1909.
She was declared Australia’s first Saint in 2010.