Maria wa Msalaba MacKillop

Maria wa Msalaba MacKillop (Melbourne, Australia, 15 Januari 1842 - Sydney, Australia, 8 Agosti 1909) alikuwa sista mwanzilishi mwenza wa shirika la kitawa la Masista wa Mt. Yosefu wa Moyo Mtakatifu ambalo ndani ya Kanisa Katoliki linahudumia hasa wasichana fukara wasio na elimu.

Picha yake halisi (1869).

Aliongoza shirika hilo hadi kifo chake kati ya wingi wa matatizo, masingizio na dharau .

Papa Yohane Paulo II alimtangaza mwenye heri tarehe 19 Januari 1995, halafu Papa Benedikto XVI akatangaza mtakatifu tarehe 17 Oktoba 2010, wa kwanza mzaliwa wa Australia.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe ya kifo chake.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Marejeo

• Davis, T. P.. "Penola Mission and St. Joseph's Old Church", 18 January 1924, p. 4.  Article written at the time of the opening of the new St Joseph's church in Penola.
• Paton, Margaret (2010). Mary MacKillop: The ground of her loving. London: Darton Longman Todd. ISBN 978-0-232-52799-5. 

Viungo vya nje

Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu:

Maria wa Msalaba MacKillop

• Official website
• Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart official website
• Mary MacKillop Place official website
• Mary MacKillop Penola Centre official website
• MacKillop, a musical by Xavier Brouwer
• MacKillop Family Services website
• O Mother Mary of the Cross, a hymn to St. Mary of the Cross, text by Veronica Brandt, music by Charles H. Giffen.
• MacKillop, Mary Helen in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

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