Tag: Agnes McGahey

  • Eileen's vault

    June 19, 2018
    10 January 2018. Year after year, the faithful have quietly come to Our Lady’s Home each year to pray at…
  • 85

    June 19, 2018
    27 October 1911. Mrs Annie O’Connor and her four children move from ‘St Elmo’ in Neptune St, Coogee, to the…
  • Sister May McGahey's MBE copy

    June 19, 2018
    1 January 1968. Rev. Mother Agnes (May) McGahey is made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for outstanding…
  • 57 Thankyou from Mother Teresa

    June 19, 2018
    4 October 1981. Founder of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, writes to the community at Our Lady’s Home, thanking…
  • 09 Foundation Nurses_0

    June 19, 2018
    28 December 1915. Julia Cooney (seated, second from the left) enters Our Lady’s Home, taking the total number of volunteer nurses…
  • 110

    June 19, 2018
    “Let every word be as a lovely rose, falling gently on lovely loving hearts, falling as full of wonders, and…
  • 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…
  • 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,…