Walk over my grave
June 19, 2018November 1914. During their trip to the Pacific Islands, co-founders of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Eileen O’Connor and…
A future leader
June 19, 201824 January 1915. Agnes (May) McGahey enters Our Lady’s Home, Coogee. May was born at Ryde, NSW, in
The start of a long road
June 19, 201829 October 1901. 20-year-old Ted McGrath arrives at the Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart seminary at Kensington,…
Trouble brewing
June 19, 201812 January 1915. Most Rev. Michael Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney, meets with Rev. Father Edward Gell (pictured), the parish priest…
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 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…Outstanding 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…
in the company of saints
June 19, 20184 October 1981. Founder of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, writes to the community at Our Lady’s Home, thanking…
The magnificent seven
June 19, 201828 December 1915. Julia Cooney (seated, second from the left) enters Our Lady’s Home, taking the total number of volunteer nurses…
