Why pilgrims come
A sacred place worth the journey.
A prayer park marks the six-stall stable adapted in 1866 as the first St. Joseph’s School, where Mary MacKillop’s educational work and the Josephite institute took visible form.
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The pilgrim’s guide
What makes this visit meaningful
A prayer park marks the six-stall stable adapted in 1866 as the first St. Joseph’s School, where Mary MacKillop’s educational work and the Josephite institute took visible form.
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The first stable school
Stand at the documented site where more than thirty children entered the first St. Joseph’s School by 19 March 1866.
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A park made for pilgrims
The original stable no longer survives; the present place uses interpretation, prayer and landscape rather than reconstruction.