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  • 46 Captain Rev Father Edward McGrath_0

    June 19, 2018
    9 July 1918. Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Captain Father Rev. Edward (Ted) McGrath msc, embarks for the…
  • 71

    June 19, 2018
    24 April 1911. Eileen O’Connor’s father, Charles, dies from pneumonia following treatment for carcinoma of the liver. His Requiem Mass…
  • 02 Ambulance_0

    June 19, 2018
    July 1911. The O’Connor family falls on hard times following the death of Charles O’Connor. His widow, Mrs Annie O’Connor,…
  • 110

    June 19, 2018
    22 March 2018. The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP, begins the formal pro
  • 96

    June 19, 2018
    November 1914. During their trip to the Pacific Islands, co-founders of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Eileen O’Connor and…
  • 108

    June 19, 2018
    7 July 1932. The Catholic Freeman’s Journal reports that the Holy Father has given the Archbishop of Sydney permission to…
  • 105

    June 19, 2018
    13 April 2013. More than 850 people fill St Mary’s Cathedral to celebrate a Centenary Mass of Thanksgiving for Our…
  • A lifetime of pain

    July 4, 2017
    In 1895, three-year-old Eileen O’Connor and her younger sister Mary are being pushed in a pram. There is an accident…
  • Statue of Eileen O'Connor

    January 1, 2017
    January 1961. Brother James (Gregory) Fitzgerald of the Augustinian Priory in Brisbane presents Mother Superior, Cissie McLaughlin, with a life-sized…