This is any easy multi in memory of a great Australian!
The posted coordinates will take you to the steps at the entrance to St Patrick’s Catholic Church Kogarah . The school nearby was led by the Sisters of Saint Joseph up until 1986 - order founded by Mary MacKillop.
Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842. When she was in Penola she met Father 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.
Kogarah Story
Originally opened in 1862, St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School Kogarah provided education to families for over 150 years. The school was led by the Sisters of Charity and then the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart up until 1986. In 1993 the school amalgamated with St Mary's Hurstville to become a two campus Catholic girls secondary high school known as Bethany College. At the end of 2008, the Kogarah Campus closed as a school and Bethany College became a one campus school on the Hurstville site, continuing the Josephite Tradition of Mary McKillop. The original site of St Joseph's Kogarah/Bethany College has been converted to aged care called St Patrick's Green.
Mary MacKillop ….
Mary MacKillop'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 many caches placed in significant locations of her story.
Mary died on August 8th, 1909.
She was declared Australia’s first Saint in 2010.
The cache is part of the Mary MacKillop series with over 150 hides across Australia, NZ, Ireland and Scotland."
You can find the numbers for calculating GZ without entering the school grounds or church.
A: Number of steps to the first landing
B: Number of steps to the top landing
C: Number of three-leaf clovers on ONE church door
D: Number of small sandstone columns next to church doors
E: Number of stain glass windows on the lower level beside the doors
F: Number of statues on the front facade of the church
CALCULATIONS TO GET GZ COORDINATES:
S33 58.(D-F)(B-D)(C-A)
E151 08.(B-E)(E-F)(A-E-D)
CHECKSUM: S = 26, E = 21
NOTE: There is no parking on The Princes Hwy near the posted coordinates. It is very busy in the nearby streets on most days due to close proximity of St George Public Hospital and St George Private Hospital. There is 2 hour limited parking in nearby Gray St on either side of the highway.
Thankyou to Brewmaker who has hidden, and will maintain, the cache for the Mary MacKillop Series.