An easy cache in memory of a great Australian!
The cache is located near St Joseph’s School, Uralla
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.
Uralla
St Joseph’s School was established by the Sisters of Saint Joseph in 1886. In 1896 Mary MacKillop (St Mary of the Cross) paid a visit to the school. She wrote in her diary on 29 April 1896 that she ‘was very pleased with the school and children’. The Sisters of Saint Joseph withdrew from the school in 1984 after 99 years of dedicated service to the Armidale Diocese.
The original school building was completed shortly after the arrival of the nuns in 1886 and is currently used as an administration area. Two separate major building projects have taken place since then. Four classrooms were built in the 1920’s and a further classroom and sick bay were added in the 1980’s.
Mary MacKillop ….
Mary MacKilop's famous saying was "Never see a need without doing something about it"
Well..... there was a need, a geocache in her honour, and something has been done about it!
This is one of over 150 caches placed in significant locations of her story, across Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Scotland.
Mary died on August 8th, 1909.
She was declared Australia’s first Saint in 2010.
This cache is part of the Mary MacKillop Series of caches.
Congratulations alnic39 - FTF