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That Very Troublesome Woman The Dramatic search for Mary MacKillop DVD

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1/01/2010

The dramatic story on DVD behind Blessed Mother Mary MacKillop, Australia's First Saint.

Julian Tenison Woods, a noted geologist and parish priest at Penola in South Australia, met Mary MacKillop in 1860. She was just nineteen years of age but determined that somehow she would work in the service of God. Between them they establish the Sisterhood of St. Joseph; an order of nuns destined to live a life of poverty in their quest to bring an education and a Christian upbringing to a generation of lost Catholic souls.

Our story begins on the banks of the Mary River at Maryborough in Queensland in the year 1879. The steamer, the "Egmonton," prepares to gather its passengers for the voyage to Sydney. Journalist, Stanley James, who writes under the pseudonym 'Vagabond', is a passenger.

In a dramatic confrontation between journalist and priest new light is shed on history and the work of a woman who many people believed had the qualities to become a saint has now been recognised by the Catholic Church.