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
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC), is a Roman Catholic, four-year liberal arts college located in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, northwest of Terre Haute, and between the Wabash River and the Illinois state line. It is the oldest Catholic college in Indiana. The College is known for the Mari Hulman George School of Equine Studies, which houses 50 horses on campus. It has pre-professional programs such as pre-veterinarian, pre-law, pre-medicine, and pre-dentistry, and several niche programs in leadership development, art therapy, music therapy. The school of nursing has received acclaim. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College was founded as an academy for young