A large and brilliant fete
June 19, 201828 October 1914. Mrs Ada Holman, wife of the NSW Premier, opens a four-day ‘garden fete on a large and…
Eileen’s thoughts on compassion
June 19, 2018“The cause of poverty is nothing to do with you; you don’t ask questions you help the poor.”
A cherished painting
June 19, 201810 April 1920. Knowing that her health is fading, Eileen O’Connor commissions a portrait of hersel
A ‘Protestant English officer’
June 19, 201816 June 1921. The Catholic Press reports that co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Rev. Father Edward McGrath…Eileen’s anniversary day
June 19, 201810 January 2018. Year after year, the faithful have quietly come to Our Lady’s Home each year to pray at…
“At times I have dreamed of Our Lord”
June 19, 201827 October 1911. Mrs Annie O’Connor and her four children move from ‘St Elmo’ in Neptune St, Coogee, to the…
An interrupted education
June 19, 2018Charles and Annie O'Connor have four children: Eileen, Mary, Charles and Francis. In 1904, the famil
From Parkes to Coogee
June 19, 20188 April 1914. Catherine (Katie) Lynch, one of the foundation nurses, enters Our Lady’s Home. KatRuled by the love of God
June 19, 2018“Make a resolution to love Our Lord, giving Him all yourself, to be used in saving or helping to sOutstanding service to the poor
June 19, 20181 January 1968. Rev. Mother Agnes (May) McGahey is made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for outstanding…
