St Joseph's Schoolhouse, Penola
The restored 1860s schoolhouse in Penola where Mary MacKillop began the work of the Sisters of St Joseph.
Where it began
The Schoolhouse in Penola is one of the most significant sites associated with St Mary MacKillop. It was here, from 1866, that she and Father Julian Tenison Woods began teaching and founded the Sisters of St Joseph, the order dedicated to educating poor and rural children that would spread across Australia.
Now part of the Mary MacKillop Penola Centre precinct, the modest stone-and-timber building has been preserved as a quiet place of reflection, drawing pilgrims and history visitors to the town where Australia's first saint began her life's work.
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- Dates Mary MacKillop.jpg by Pru.mitchell , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons