Sixteen Sisters of Saint Joseph from across the Congregation have celebrated their Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years since their first profession. Photo: Supplied. Sixteen Sisters of Saint Joseph from across the Congregation have last month 8 January celebrated their Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years since their first profession. Sr Monica Cavanagh, Congregational Leader of the Sisters of ...

Ten years after her canonisation, the courage of Saint Mary MacKillop – Australia’s first and only saint – still resonates within the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, a religious order founded by the St MacKillop with the assistance of Fr Julian Tenison-Woods in 1866 in Penola, SA.