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  • Father McGrath's epaulettes

    For valour

    August 11, 2018
    28 September 1918. Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Captain Rev. Father Edward McGrath msc rescues a seriously-injured…
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    The cause begins

    August 11, 2018
    30 August 1962. His Eminence Cardinal Norman Gilroy, approves the following prayer for the beatification of Eileen O’Connor: O God,…
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    Prayers for the beatification of Eileen O’Connor

    August 11, 2018
    10 January 2017. Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, Archbishop of Sydney, approves two prayers for the beatification of Our Lady’s…
  • Eileen's playing cards

    Cards, anyone?

    June 19, 2018
    9 May 1939. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the annual card party to raise funds for Our Lady
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    “Just as they last saw her”

    June 19, 2018
    19 December 1936. Eileen O’Connor’s body is exhumed from Randwick Cemetery for reinterment in the chapel at Our Lady’s Home.…
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    A papal audience

    June 19, 2018
    October 1915. Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Eileen O’Connor, has an audience with His Holiness, Pope Benedict…
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    An unfortunate coincidence

    June 19, 2018
    27 June 1914. Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Visitor General, Rev. Father Hubert
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    Our Lady’s Home expands

    June 19, 2018
    19 March 1939. Most Rev. Norman Gilroy, Archbishop Coadjutor of Sydney, lays the foundation stone fo
  • Eileen with Kathleen Perrottet

    A devoted friend of Eileen

    June 19, 2018
    6 May 1943. Martha Perrottet, a staunch supporter of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor from the very beginning, dies…
  • Our Ladys Home

    A place to call home

    June 19, 2018
    8 December 1913. Benefactors, Rev. Father Edward Gell and Miss Frances Gell, present two cheques to Eileen O’Connor and Father…