Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: Penola school house in South Australia. Source: ABC South East SA, Bec Whetham Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop, has had a profound and lasting impact on Catholic education in Australia. Throughout her life, Mary accomplished great things. Mary began...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: Principal Matt Smith and students from Redfern Jarjum College 2020. The Jesuit Fathers arrived in Australia from Austria in 1848. The Society of Jesus established their first school in 1856 which was the first Catholic boys school in South Australia, St...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: St Brigid’s School West Perth c1899. Source: Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea. The Sisters of Mercy arrived in Australia in January 1846, and in that same month the first Mercy Schoolin Australia was opened by Mother Ursula...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: St Vincent’s College, Potts Point c 1952. Courtesy of the Congregational Archives of the Sisters of Charity of Australia On 31 December 1838, five Sisters of Charity arrived in Sydney from Ireland, the first women Religious in Australia. Mary Aikenhead, the...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: St Mary’s Cathedral students 2020. Source Sydney Catholic Schools. The Benedictine Monks were the first religious order to serve in Australia and were involved in the early days of the establishment of Catholic schools. In 1833, Fr William B Ullalthorne was the...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: Old Marist School House in Parramatta. Source: Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta. On 16 May 1935, The Catholic Press newspaper declared that “Parramatta deserves the title of The Cradle of Catholicism in Australia”. It was in Parramatta that the first...
