Sisters of the Good Samaritan
- Sisters of the Good Samaritan
The Sisters of the Good Samaritan are a Roman Catholic religious congregation, of Tertiaries Regular of St. Benedict. They were established 2 February, 1857, at Sydney, Australia.
History
In 1859 a second community was established at Windsor, New South Wales and thereafter frequent foundations were made. In the Archdiocese of Adelaide they founded a convent at Gawler in 1902, and in the Archdiocese of Melbourne a house at Northcote (1904) and a high school at South Yarra.
In the Diocese of Port Augusta, where they established a house in 1890, they rana boarding school and a day school; in the Diocese of Rockhampton also they had a boarding school, founded in 1890; and in the Vicariate Apostolic of Cooktown a day school, established in 1903.
They established the all girls Mater Christi College in Belgrave, Victoria in 1963. [cite web
url=http://www.materchristi.edu.au/ourcollege/history.htm
title=MaterChristi - A Good Samaritan School for Girls
publisher=www.materchristi.edu.au
accessdate=2008-09-05]
At Tempe, Arncliffe, in the Archdiocese of Sydney, the Sisters of the Good Samaritan established St. Magdalen's Retreat, a home for penitent women of all creeds.
References
*"Australasian Catholic Directory" (1909);
*Heimbucher, "Orden und Kongregationen"
External link
* [http://www.goodsams.org.au/ Official Home page]
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