Mary MacKillop in what is now the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria (at the time part of an area called Newtown in the then British colony of New South Wales), to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Although she continued to be known as "Mary", when she was baptised six weeks later she received the names Maria Ellen. MacKillop's parents lived in Roybridge, Inverness-shire, Scotland, prior to emigrating to Australia. MacKillop visited the village in the 1870s where the local Catholic church, St Margaret's, now has a shrine to her. MacKillop's father, Alexander MacKillop, born in Perthshire, had been educated at the Scots
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Roman Catholic Church (Belgique, Missouri) The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Roman Catholic Church (Belgique, Missouri) The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church was a Roman Catholic church in Belgique, Missouri. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church was founded in 1884 by Catholic settlers from Belgium. Father D.L. De Ceumynck, an immigrant from Belgium, served as the church's first priest. The first church building was erected in 1885. In 1893 a new church was built and the older building was then used as the school. In 1963, the pastor at Belgique was assigned to administer to the Catholics at Claryville and