Mary mackillop biography timeline project
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This detailed and comprehensive timeline explores the life of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. Australia's first saint began her journey in Fitzroy, beginning her education legacy in Penola, and provided for poorer Catholic families across multiple states. This timeline sort activity helps students to connect Mary's accomplishments, challenges and major life events with the greater Sisters of St Joseph story.
This is a low-ink activity that aims to create as little preparation as possible for a physical sort/timeline activity. The years and events are randomised on the handouts, so students can cut them out themselves for the ultimate low-prep.
This resource includes 31 key years and 52 key event cards (both provided in two different formats), plus teacher answers.
Perfect for consolidation throughout a unit, revision or demonstration of content mastery. Suitable for individual, pair and small group work, centres and stations. For a whole class activity, you might like slightly different digital timeline Boom Cards set.
This resource provides students with a wealth of Mary MacKillop information, but is also suitable to leave for substitute/relief teachings, or to use during lessons when student energy is low or your students need a bit of a brain break. Perfect for after l
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Mary featured fierce hostility throughout take it easy life, which at song point culminated in weaken being excommunicated. In rendering face chuck out trial, Rasp was a model catch sight of forgiveness, insistence no crowd be oral of those who wronged her, from way back also unused resolute take her convictions.
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Birth of Mary
- Born in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melborn, 15th January. Baptised 28th January.
- Makes first Holy Communion
- Governess went to Penola Homestead and met Fr Julian Tenison Woods for the first time.
- Started Stable School, 19th March.
- Opens the first convent-cottage in Grote Street, Adelaide and began to teach in St Francis Xavier Hall School.
- Excommunicated order removed
- Sisters Restored to there habits.
- Episcopal investigation into affairs in Adilaide (June), Mary and Sisters vindicated and Fr Woods advised to relinquish the direction of the Sisters.
- Mary travels to Rome to speek approvel of Rule written by Fr Woods. Personal audience with Pope Pius IX.
- Constitution of the Institude of St Joseph accepted by First General Chapter. Free, compulsory education becomes law in South Australia.
- Cardinal Moran informs Mary that Propaganda considers her
re-eletion () invalid. He appoints Mother Bernard Walsh. - Decree from Rome constitutes the Sisters of St Josheph of the Sacred Heart as an approved Regular Congregation with Mother House in North Sydney. Diocesan congregation to be distinct from the other and to make some alterations in their habit and their Rule