"To examine how Christianity influenced Mother Mary Helen MacKillop and the sisters of Saint Joseph to develop and change Australia's education system throughout the years of 1788-1900"

During the years 1788-1900 Christianity was a factor that influenced the education system greatly. During this measure there was a lack of education in Australia, and particular in catholic education. induce Mary Helen MacKillop and the sisters of shrine Joseph pioneered the use of Christianity as a foundation for education. The sisters of Saint Joseph helped to diverge and develop a catholic education system in Australia.

Mother Mary life began in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 1842. Where she attend big bucks every weekend in the midst of her religious catch and father. From a young age she call upd that she was called to spend her life on the job(p) for god. When she was the age of 19, she moved to Penola, in South Australia to be a tutor to her young cousins, but believed that her life shouldnt be purposeless teaching the rich but to teach the poor. During the 1850s and 60s the only passel that where educated where the people who could afford it and Mother Mary didnt believe in this. When Mother Mary became good friend with a local priest Father Woods, who had the same concerns as Mother Mary about lack of education and particularly Catholic education in Australia. So the in 1866 they both started the graduation free catholic school in a renovated inactive and, the Mother Mary started teaching more than fifty children.



curtly after starting the school Father Woods was ordained Director of Education and became the founder, with Mary, of the Sisters of St Joseph who would teach in their schools.

In 1867 The Sisters of Saint Joseph dress up a set of rule or guidelines that where indite by Father Woods and Mary to give the Sisters something to hold out by:

        An emphasis on poverty

        a dependence on Divine Providence

        no ownership of personal...

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