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MARY MACKILLOP Mary MacKillop is one step away from being Australia's first saint. The Catholic Church needs some more proof of her closeness to God before it decides to maker her one. She will be a figure to whom people will look and think of God, and that really is what Sainthood is all about. (Sister Pat White) Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842. Her father had spent the family ...

St. Mary MacKillop, Foundress (RM) Return to Works of Justice and Peace ... HOME Born in Australia in 1842; died there on May 25, 1909; canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1995. Although Mary MacKillop's heritage was Scottish, she is Australia's first native-born saint. Her father was a seminarian educated at the Scots College in Rome, but left before his ordination. Instead he emigrated to ...