Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister. She was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with Fr Julian Tenison-Woods, she founded the S
Mother Mary of the Cross (1869)
MacKillop museum on Mount Street, North Sydney
Mary MacKillop Chapel in North Sydney, which holds MacKillop's tomb
Saint Mary MacKillop, 1890
Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on behalf of individual
Mary MacKillop
…and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor. The process to have MacKillop declared a saint began in the 1920s, and she was beatified in January 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008 and in December 2009…
Pope John Paul I (1912–1978), beatified on 4 September 2022 by Pope Francis. He is the most recent pontiff to be beatified.
Pictured is Pope John Paul II. He beatified more people than all his predecessors had during the previous 400 years, and was himself beatified in 2011.