Mary MacKillop 1873

by Sheila McCreanor

Book cover: Mary MacKillop 1873

Extent: 312 pages

Publisher: ATF Press

Subjects: Religious Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2017)

ISBN: 9781925486766

5.94 x 9.09 inches

Price: $25.95

In stock

Hardback (Published)

(December 2016)

ISBN: 9781925486773

5.94 x 9.09 inches

Price: $33.95

In stock

PDF (Published)

(December 2017)

ISBN: 9781925486803

Price: $25.95

This is the sixth collection to be published. It focusses on the time not long after Mary MacKillop’s excommunication when she was encouraged to go to Rome to seek approval for the Rule of the Sisters of St Joseph. Mary set off alone, travelling incognito, with little money and no knowledge of where to stay or how she would travel. Her letters and her diary during 1873 show her amazing trust in the Providence of God as well as her very human feelings of loneliness, her worry about the Sisters back in Australia and her delight in visiting the holy places especially St Peter’s Basilica. Little did Mary MacKillop dream that in 2010 thousands would gather in St Peter’s Square to see her photo hanging from the Basilica as she was proclaimed a Saint by Pope Benedict XVI.


This is the sixth collection to be published. It focusses on the time not long after Mary MacKillop’s excommunication when she was encouraged to go to Rome to seek approval for the Rule of the Sisters of St Joseph. Mary set off alone, travelling incognito, with little money and no knowledge of where to stay or how she would travel. Her letters and her diary during 1873 show her amazing trust in the Providence of God as well as her very human feelings of loneliness, her worry about the Sisters back in Australia and her delight in visiting the holy places especially St Peter’s Basilica. Little did Mary MacKillop dream that in 2010 thousands would gather in St Peter’s Square to see her photo hanging from the Basilica as she was proclaimed a Saint by Pope Benedict XVI.

  • By (author) Sheila McCreanor