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
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary () is an Evangelical Lutheran church located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Its building was built in 1805 and refurbished in 2002. Its address is; Bolshoi Konyushennnaya Ulitsa 8A, off Nevsky Prospekt. It is usually called the Finnish church and is one of the oldest and largest Protestant churches in Russia. In this area of Saint Petersburg, which used to be called "Ingria" by the Finnish and Swedish, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria has a 400-year history: Today the church is the largest among the 75 churches