A single flickering candle cast an angelic glow across black and white photographs of Margaret Moses and Gyoparka Makk at the Adelaide Sisters of Mercy’s 50th anniversary commemoration of the Operation Babylift tragedy last month. Their young faces and memories are forever captured in time.
Adelaide’s Sisters of Mercy are commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Margaret Moses and Gyoparka Makk, two Catholic women who were on board an aircraft that crashed while evacuating babies and adults during the fall of Saigon.
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Proudly displayed in Sr Marietta Green’s room at Calvary Oaklands is a black and white photo of the students of St Teresa’s School, Brighton, taken in the early 1940s.
Sr Deirdre Murphy rsm (born September 13 1936, died August 29 2024) <br />
More than 430 staff from three Catholic colleges came together for the first time in early September for a day of reflection, honouring their shared Mercy traditions.
A year of celebrations kicked off in Millicent on February 7, as staff and students gathered for the opening ceremony for St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School’s 125 year anniversary.
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