Tag: Agnes McGahey

  • 85

    June 19, 2018
    1 November 1911. On the eve of All Saints Day, 19-year-old Eileen O’Connor lies unconscious at ‘Restwell’ in Beach St,…
  • 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…
  • 33

    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,…
  • Father Edward Gell

    June 19, 2018
    12 January 1915. Most Rev. Michael Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney, meets with Rev. Father Edward Gell (pictured), the parish priest…
  • 88

    June 19, 2018
    28 October 1914. Mrs Ada Holman, wife of the NSW Premier, opens a four-day ‘garden fete on a large and…
  • 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…