Mary MacKillop small yellow cottage now known as Mary MacKillop cottage was originally built as a miner's house around 1870. It was bought by the church and incorporated into the church school in 1882 and then in 1897, Sister Mary MacKillop had the cottage and some of the school converted to a convent for the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart who worked in New Zealand and Australia. In 1897, Bishop Maher of Port Augusta arranged for the Sisters of St Joseph to take charge of the St Anacletus Catholic Day School at Petersburg (now Peterborough). MacKillop founded a convent
Cathedral of Saint Mary (St. Cloud, Minnesota) Cathedral of Saint Mary (St. Cloud, Minnesota) The Cathedral of St. Mary is the cathedral church for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud located in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. The St. Cloud Diocese serves Central Minnesota and a Catholic population of about 150,000. Saint Mary's Parish was founded in 1855 by the Rev. Francis Xavier Pierz. He celebrated the first Mass in the parish on May 21 in the home of John and Catherina Schwarz. Property was bought for $500 and plans were made for a wood-frame church and a school. In 1856 a Benedictine monk from Saint