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.
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