150th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Sisters of Charity in Australia 1838-1988

baptized a Protestant. Being a frail baby, she was taken to Nurse Mary Rorke at Eason's Hill to be nursed and for six years remained in the country air in the midst of a deeply religious family. At home again with her family, Mary attended Sunday Service at the Protestant Shandon Church. Mary was confused by the poverty of the Catholics contrasting with the well being of the Protestants. She enjoyed her visits to Mrs Stackpole's Catholic home, reverting to the famliar prayers Nurse Rorke had taught her and revisiting the much loved Catholic Chapel with its strange halo of purity and peace. During his last illness Dr Aikenhead, touched by his wife's passionately expressed sorrow, sent for a priest and after a long conversation, asked to be received into the Catholic Church. He died with great trust in God in December, 1801. In her sixteenth year Mary was baptized in the Catholic Church and received her First Communion and Confirmation. By the time she was eighteen she no