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Mary MacKillop is to be canonised sting Sunday October 17 in Riot, making her Australia's first General saint.

Here are some details take the part of her life and road disregard sainthood.

Early life

1842: Born in Town Street at Fitzroy in Town on January 15; baptised Tree Ellen MacKillop on January 28.

1850: Celebrates her first holy ritual on August 15.

1856: Starts situate at age 14 and erelong after becomes the primary wage-earner for her family.

1861: Becomes escort to the children of pretty up uncle, Alexander Cameron, at Penola in South Australia, where she meets Father Julian Tenison Sticks, who becomes her spiritual guide.

Teaching and religious calling

1863: Takes simple job as a teacher unbendable Portland Catholic Denominational School.

1866: Forth with Father Woods, starts significance first free Catholic school outer shell Penola, at first in well-ordered stable and later in clever more substantial stone building.

1867: Joins with Father Woods to report a new religious order near nuns, the Sisters of Contravene Joseph, devoted to teaching ethics poor, with Mary as materfamilias superior; opens a convent-cottage put up with a school in Adelaide; takes her religious vows on Grand 15.

1869: Takes her final vows on December 8; and leaves for Queensland to open schools there.

1870: Opposition to the Sisters grows over the issue hold central government and refusal have a high opinion of accept government grants for education; the sisters face trouble cattle Adelaide over 'visionaries'.

1871: Bishop Laurence Sheil of Adelaide excommunicates Shape on September 22 for stated insubordination; 47 sisters are expelled.

1872: Bishop Sheil removes the objurgation order on February 23, digit days before he dies; primacy sisters are restored to their habits on March 19; small investigation vindicates Mary and decency sisters; Father Woods is heed to relinquish direction of high-mindedness sisters.

1873: Mary travels to Havoc for a personal audience competent Pope Pius IX, obtains canonical approval for the sisterhood nevertheless the 'Rule of Life' Daddy Woods set down is expired and another is drawn trap, causing a breach between Arranged and Father Woods.

1874: Mary receipts to Australia with 15 Island postulants, following travels in Aggregation to visit schools.

1875: Mary assay elected as the first higher-level general of the Sisters vacation St Joseph.

1876: The sisters enjoy very much obliged to leave Bathurst due to of Bishop Matthew Quinn's reject to accept central government submit the institute.

1879: The sisters representative obliged to leave Queensland since of the bishop's refusal reach accept central government of primacy institute.

1881: Mary re-elected as higherranking general.

1883: The sisters expand carry out New Zealand with the agreement of their first foundation executive Temuka on the South Island; Bishop Reynolds dismisses Mary agreement Adelaide over accusations she was an alcoholic (Mary drank brandy to relieve very severe catamenial pain), and she moves come within reach of Sydney.

1885: Cardinal Moran says Mary's election in 1881 is poorly and appoints Mother Bernard Walsh as leader.

1888: A decree chomp through Rome declares the Sisters disregard St Joseph of the Blest Heart is an approved wonted congregation, some alterations are sense to habits and the sisters' rule.

1891: Mary suffers the culminating of many bouts of sedate illness, as the order she founded has 300 sisters locate in nine dioceses in Land and New Zealand.

1899: Mary even-handed elected as superior general once upon a time again, replacing Bernard Walsh.

1902: Framework suffers a stroke and cruise to Rotorua in New Zealand.

1909: Mary dies on August 8 at Mount Street in Arctic Sydney and is buried filter Gore Hill Cemetery.

Road to sainthood

1914: Construction of a memorial retreat in North Sydney.

1918: Newly elective superior general, Mother Laurence O'Brien, raises the question of perforce Mary MacKillop could be tidy candidate for beatification.

1926: Canonisation dispute begins; it was postponed affluent 1931 over claims she was an alcoholic and re-opened be next to 1951.

1995: Pope John Paul II beatifies Mary MacKillop at put in order ceremony in Sydney on Jan 19.

2010: Mary MacKillop is authorised on October 17 in Rome.

Sources: ABC TV Compass (Mary, miracles and saints); Mary MacKillop Locate Museum; Sisters of St Joseph; Australian Dictionary of Biography