A local hero returns
June 1926
Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Rev. Father Edward (Ted) McGrath msc, returns.
In the company of saints
4 October 1981
Founder of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, writes to the community at Our Lady’s Home
An inestimable privilege
7 July 1932
The Catholic Freeman’s Journal reports that the Holy Father has given the Archbishop of Sydney permission to allow Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor
The end of a long journey
17 May 1977
Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Rev. Father Edward (Ted) McGrath msc, dies at Our Lady’s Home, aged 96 years.
Walk over my grave
November 1914
Co-founders Eileen Rev. McGrath msc, were presented with part of a war club reputedly used to martyr St Peter Chanel.
“Those wonderful lovers of God's poor”
4 August 1940
The Most Rev. Norman Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, opens and blesses the new extension at Our Lady’s Home.
A papal audience
October 1915
Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Eileen O’Connor, has an audience with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV.
The start of a long road
29 October 1901
20-year-old Ted McGrath arrives at the Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart seminary at Kensington, NSW.
She sent an angel
26 May 1913
Theresa (Cissie) McLaughlin enters Our Lady’s Home and becomes Eileen O’Connor’s first volunteer nurse.
She walks!
25 September 1914
As Rev. Edward (Ted) McGrath battles with his superiors at the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
An unfortunate coincidence
27 June 1914
Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Visitor General, Rev. Father Hubert Linckens, arrives in Sydney.
A lifetime of pain
1895
In 1895, three-year-old Eileen O’Connor and her younger sister Mary are being pushed in a pram.
The Augustinian stockman
January 1961
Brother James (Gregory) Fitzgerald of the Augustinian Priory in Brisbane presents Mother Superior, Cissie McLaughlin