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.
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC), is a Roman Catholic, four-year liberal arts college located in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, northwest of Terre Haute, and between the Wabash River and the Illinois state line. It is the oldest Catholic college in Indiana. The College is known for the Mari Hulman George School of Equine Studies, which houses 50 horses on campus. It has pre-professional programs such as pre-veterinarian, pre-law, pre-medicine, and pre-dentistry, and several niche programs in leadership development, art therapy, music therapy. The school of nursing has received acclaim. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College was founded as an academy for young