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    June 19, 2018
    1 July 1956. Our Lady’s Home, Brisbane, opens after more than a decade of talks with Most Rev. James Duhig,…
  • 14

    June 19, 2018
    27 March 1952. The Catholic Weekly reports that Mrs. M. Mungovan and her committee are organising an appeal for clothing…
  • Eileen's playing cards

    June 19, 2018
    9 May 1939. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the annual card party to raise funds for Our Lady
  • 84

    June 19, 2018
    19 December 1936. Eileen O’Connor’s body is exhumed from Randwick Cemetery for reinterment in the chapel at Our Lady’s Home.…
  • 82

    June 19, 2018
    October 1915. Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Eileen O’Connor, has an audience with His Holiness, Pope Benedict…
  • 54 Archduke_0

    June 19, 2018
    27 June 1914. Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Visitor General, Rev. Father Hubert Linckens, arrives in Sydney to…
  • 86

    June 19, 2018
    19 March 1939. Most Rev. Norman Gilroy, Archbishop Coadjutor of Sydney, lays the foundation stone for a new building at…
  • Eileen with Kathleen Perrottet

    June 19, 2018
    6 May 1943. Martha Perrottet, a staunch supporter of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor from the very beginning, dies…
  • Our Ladys Home

    June 19, 2018
    8 December 1913. Benefactors, Rev. Father Edward Gell and Miss Frances Gell, present two cheques to Eileen O’Connor and Father…
  • 84

    June 19, 2018
    28 September 1902. Eileen O’Connor is confirmed at St Ignatius Church, Richmond, Victoria. She chooses the confirmation name of Maria,…