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    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,…
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    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…
  • Packing the cars at Coogee

    June 19, 2018
    The community at Our Lady’s Home, Coogee, is presented with its first car, thanks to the tireless fundraising efforts of…
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    June 19, 2018
    24 January 1915. Agnes (May) McGahey enters Our Lady’s Home, Coogee. May was born at Ryde, NSW, in
  • 89

    June 19, 2018
    29 October 1901. 20-year-old Ted McGrath arrives at the Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart seminary at Kensington,…
  • 94

    June 19, 2018
    Telephones have been pivotal to the work of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor from the outset. This Lars Magnus…
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    June 19, 2018
    11 April 1881. Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor co-founder, Rev. Father Edward (Ted) McGrath, is born at Bungeet West, near Devenish…