Tag: Agnes McGahey

  • 57 Thankyou from Mother Teresa

    in the company of saints

    June 19, 2018
    4 October 1981. Founder of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, writes to the community at Our Lady’s Home, thanking…
  • 09 Foundation Nurses_0

    The magnificent seven

    June 19, 2018
    28 December 1915. Julia Cooney (seated, second from the left) enters Our Lady’s Home, taking the total number of volunteer nurses…
  • 110

    If God is for us who can be against?

    June 19, 2018
    “Let every word be as a lovely rose, falling gently on lovely loving hearts, falling as full of wonders, and…
  • 84

    “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.…
  • 82

    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…
  • 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…
  • 84

    Ave Maria

    June 19, 2018
    28 September 1902. Eileen O’Connor is confirmed at St Ignatius Church, Richmond, Victoria. She chooses the confirmation name of Maria,…
  • 92

    Thanks for your work

    June 19, 2018
    2 December 1970. His Eminence Norman Cardinal Gilroy presents Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor co-founder, Rev. Father Edward (Ted)…
  • 80

    She walks!

    June 19, 2018
    25 September 1914. As Rev. Edward (Ted) McGrath battles with his superiors at the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart to continue…
  • 110

    Nothing can separate us from the love of God

    June 19, 2018
    “You have my heart in such a hidden way – do even the Angels know? Love is the only teacher.…