Tag: Catherine Rooney

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    True loving and devoted friends

    June 19, 2018
    This couch once belonged to the Rooney family, who were neighbours of the O’Connor family in Redfern. The Rooney children…
  • 78

    Go the Blues!

    June 19, 2018
    21 August 1974. Carlton Football Club President, George Harris, writes to Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor co-founder, Rev. Father Edward…
  • 47 Ellen Fitzgerald_0

    A gentle friend of the dying

    June 19, 2018
    8 August 1913. Ellen (Nell) Fitzgerald, one the foundation nurses, enters the community at Our Lad
  • 110

    Eileen’s thoughts on strength of spirit

    June 19, 2018
    “You can trust God with your whole self, your whole will. His love will gain all for you. Seek only…
  • 97

    There’s my consolation

    June 19, 2018
    Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Eileen O’Connor, willingly accepted a lifetime of debilitating pain to assist the…
  • 87

    “Those wonderful lovers of God’s poor”

    June 19, 2018
    4 August 1940. The Most Rev. Norman Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, opens and blesses the new extension at Our Lady’s…
  • 46 Captain Rev Father Edward McGrath_0

    “I’ll mop you up”

    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…
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    An inestimable privilege

    June 19, 2018
    7 July 1932. The Catholic Freeman’s Journal reports that the Holy Father has given the Archbishop