Sisters of the Good Samaritan

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The Sisters of the Good Samaritan , also known as "Good Sams", are a Roman Catholic congregation founded in 1857 by the Benedictine Bede Polding , the first bishop of Sydney .

The congregation was the first religious congregation established in Australia . The sisters form an Apostolic Institute and live according to the Regula Benedicti . Its name is derived from the parable of the good Samaritan .

history

Under the direction of co-founder mother Scholastica Gibbons, the sisters looked after needy homeless women and orphans. The first establishment outside of New South Walles took place in 1890 in Port Pirie, South Australia . Since then, the sisters have been represented in all Australian states and territories.

For the first hundred years, education was a priority for the sisters.

After the Second Vatican Council they turned more to catechesis, community work and support for indigenous, disabled, homeless and elderly people. During this time, more and more lay people were active in the schools.

After the Second World War , they went to Japan in 1948 to set up an ambulance for the victims of the atomic bombs. Later they also opened schools and kindergartens. The sisters from Japan founded a kindergarten in Bacolod City in 1990 as a sign of reconciliation . At the request of the local bishop, they planted wards and preschool centers in Kiribati .

In 2011 the sisters in Australia had ten schools in the five dioceses of Brisbane , Melbourne , Sydney , Broken Bay and Wollongong .

Today 235 Good Samaritan Women live across Australia, Japan, the Philippines and Kiribati.

Schools of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan

Australia

New South Wales
Queensland
  • Lourdes Hill College, Hawthorne, Brisbane
  • St Margaret Mary's College, Hyde Park, Townsville
South Australia
Victoria
  • Mater Christi College, Belgrave , Melbourne
  • Santa Maria College, Northcote, Melbourne

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bede Nairn: Polding, John Bede (1794–1877) . In: Australian Dictionary of Biography . National Center of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra ( edu.au [accessed June 14, 2018]).
  2. M. Kelleher, Sister Scholastica Gibbons: co-founder of the Sisters of The Good Samaritan, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 20 (1999), 17-30.
  3. ^ M. Gregory, From refuge to retreat to community: the social work ministry of the Good Samaritans at Pitt Street and Tempe / Arncliffe, 1857–1984, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society , 7 (4) (1984), 3– 19th
  4. ^ Good Samaritan Education
  5. ^ Marilyn Kelleher SGS: Annals of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict . 2010, p. 11-12 .