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.
As a young girl the idea of joining a religious order never crossed Yvonne Gleeson’s mind, despite her strong Catholic background and her much older cousin James being a priest – and later Archbishop of Adelaide.
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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.
In her golden anniversary year as a Sister of Mercy, Meredith Evans is showing no signs of slowing down as she continues the work that earned her the title of 2024 Senior South Australian of the Year.
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