Mary MacKillop The process to have MacKillop declared a saint began in the 1920s, and she was beatified in January 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008 and in December 2009 approved the Catholic Church's recognition of a second miracle attributed to her intercession. She was canonised on 17 October 2010, during a public ceremony in St Peter's Square at the Vatican. She is the first Australian to be recognised by the Catholic Church as a saint. Mary Helen MacKillop was born on 15 January 1842
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Saint Petersburg) Kondrusiewicz consecrated the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Cathedral has a shape of a Latin cross, combined with the building of a single sign seminary. Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Saint Petersburg) Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was a Catholic cathedral in the city of St. Petersburg from 1873 to 1926 and the residence of Metropolitan of Mogilev, the head of the Catholic Church in the Russian Empire. Administratively it belongs to the North-West region Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow, led by Archbishop Metropolitan Paolo Pezzi. Cathedral