SISTERS OF COMPASSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24347, 11 July 1940, Page 6

SISTERS OF COMPASSION

WORK FOR POOR AND ■ ,"■ • '■■;- T, J ' '"•'■'.'■. EXTENSION TO AUSTRALIA (Peb United Press Association) WELLINGTON;, 'July 10. On returning this week Jjcom a visit to Australia the Rev. Motf-ier Cecilia, head of the Order of Sisters of Com-, passion, said it \*as intendeil-to extend the foundations of the crde; to Broken Hill next year and to I; risbane in 1942. This is the first t ccasion on which a foundation has be ;ri made of an order originating in Nei v Zealand. The order was established |k>y the late Rev. Mother Mary Joseph] Aubert at Jerusalem, Wanganui at the request of Archbishcp in 1883, and has been carried on tlpre to the present day. • ( ■ "Many members of the| hierarchy who visited Wellington in ijcbnnection with the Eucharistic Congress in February were interested in tha- work we are doing for the poor and offering," said the Rev. Mother Ceciliaj "Among these were Bishcp Fox, of Forbes, and Archbishop Duhijk, of Brisbane, both of whom invited lis to visit Australia and see for ourselves the need for the foundations of tiie Sisters of Compassion there. The cider commenced obscurely in Jerusalem and Broken Hill has been select! d as the starting point in Australia bhcause of its comparative obscurity, hv\, our objective will be to endeavour) to commence in Brisbane seme time in 1942, long before which time we tjiope the war will be over. Indeed, weihave already been encouraged to tyike this action by the help given inj certain directions." , I .