The service of Brisbane’s Sisters of Charity to the poor and marginalised has been immortalised in photographs ahead of their centenary this year. Source: The Catholic Leader.
To commemorate the centenary, the sisters have created a photographic exhibition to highlight their work.
It was designed to serve as a tribute to the sisters and to highlight the gifts and contributions that each individual provided to the life and mission.
The sisters began in Brisbane at Mount St Michael’s College, which they founded in 1925 at Ashgrove.
They responded to the need for Catholic education for the young women of Brisbane.
They began accepting students around the same time as the opening of an adjoining Sisters of Charity primary school, St Finbarr’s.
Another three schools have followed over the years, while the needs of the sick, the dying and the elderly were attended to by the founding of St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba in 1922; the opening of Mt Olivet in 1957; and the evolution into St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane; the creation of St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside (formerly Holy Spirit Hospital); and the acquisition and construction of 12 aged care facilities and six retirement villages in south-east Queensland over more recent decades.
St Vincent’s today is Australia’s largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services .
The exhibition is open from May 25 to July 6, at Level 2 St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane – 411 Main Street, Kangaroo Point from 10am-2pm.
Details: Email Paula Russell at [email protected].
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Look through a century of care with Brisbane’s Sisters of Charity (By Joe Higgins, The Catholic Leader)
