Mary MacKillop Mary MacKillop Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian nun who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. Of Scottish descent, she was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with the Reverend Julian Tenison Woods, she founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (the Josephites), a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor.
Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary, Żebbuġ, Gozo Assumption on Gozo. The church also includes a statue of Saint Anthony of Padua made in 1904, a statue of Saint Joseph made in 1906, and a statue of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux made in 1922. A statue of Our Lady of the Rosary was blessed in 1919. The parish also owns a set of statues showing various episodes of the Passion of Jesus, which are used in the annual Good Friday procession. Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary, Żebbuġ, Gozo The Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven () is a Roman Catholic