There’s my consolation
June 19, 2018Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Eileen O’Connor, willingly accepted a lifetime of debilitating pain to assist the…
“Those wonderful lovers of God’s poor”
June 19, 20184 August 1940. The Most Rev. Norman Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, opens and blesses the new extension at Our Lady’s…
“I’ll mop you up”
June 19, 20189 July 1918. Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Captain Father Rev. Edward (Ted) McGrath msc, embarks for the…
An inestimable privilege
June 19, 20187 July 1932. The Catholic Freeman’s Journal reports that the Holy Father has given the Archbishop
True loving and devoted friends
June 19, 2018This couch once belonged to the Rooney family, who were neighbours of the O’Connor family in Redfern. The Rooney children…
Go the Blues!
June 19, 201821 August 1974. Carlton Football Club President, George Harris, writes to Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor co-founder, Rev. Father Edward…
A gentle friend of the dying
June 19, 20188 August 1913. Ellen (Nell) Fitzgerald, one the foundation nurses, enters the community at Our Lad
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…
