the sisters of st joseph were founded on january 7, 1874.
the sisters of st joseph were founded on january 7, 1874.
when was the sisters of st joseph founded?
january 7, 1874
the sisters arrived in whanganui in 1880. they arrived as members of the order of sisters of st joseph of the sacred heart which had been founded in penola, south australia in 1866 by mary mackillop and father julian tenison woods. early on in her project of founding these australia-wide josephite sisters, mary mackillop had met opposition from several bishops, who refused to allow them the freedom from direct diocesan control that the catholic church had recommended for the new institute. the problem dragged on until 1888 before their independence from diocesan control was firmly established. it was during this period of confusion that josephites came to the wellington diocese (which at that time included whanganui) through the intervention of an irish marist priest, father charles kirk, who had ministered in sydney and there learned of this home-grown congregation that was tackling the problem of the education of catholic children, especially in outback australia. father kirk had spent about three years as an assistant at st patrick's marist church in central sydney before moving on to be appointed rector at whanganui in 1875. aware of the high reputation of the sisters of st joseph in australia, he set about getting them for his school. they came to him from the bathurst diocese where bishop matthew quinn had formed the josephite sisters there into a diocesan group under his direction, and it was as a diocesan group that they were welcomed in whanganui on 25 april 1880. the bishop of wellington, francis redwood recognised them as a diocesan congregation for his diocese. to distinguish them from the josephites who came directly from mary mackillop and who had since arrived elsewhere in the diocese (at temuka in the south island), bishop redwood asked the whanganui sisters to change their name to "sisters of st joseph of nazareth" and that they wear a black veil instead of a brown one. in fact, they soon changed their whole habit from brown to black, and became popularly known as the "black josephites".
sisters of st joseph of nazareth
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