Loreto in Australia

Clark, Mary Ryllis
ISBN: 9781742230313 Categories: ,

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AUSTRALIANA Religion  Aboriginal

Published for the 400th anniversary of the establishment the first religious community of Loreto founder Mary Ward.

When a small group of strictly enclosed Irish nuns arrived in Ballarat in 1875, with their charismatic leader Mother Gonzaga Barry, who could have imagined the influence they would have on Catholic education in Australia? Since then, Loreto nuns have not only founded their own schools, but run parish schools, worked in indigenous and other disadvantaged communities, taught in universities and held prominent positions in public life. Loreto in Australia is the story of women of great strength, charm and deep spirituality, fulfilling the prediction of their seventeenth-century founder Mary Ward that ‘women in time to come will do great matters’.

Additional Information

AuthorClark, Mary Ryllis
Number of pagesxi, 332 p. [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.
PublisherUniversity of New South Wales Press
Year Published2009
Binding Type

French flaps, Softcover

Book Condition

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