Blessed Mary MacKillop was an Australian Catholic born to a Scottish migrant family in Melbourne in the 19th century.
She co-founded an order of Religious Sisters called the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart which established schools, refuges, orphanages, reformatories and providences for the poor across Australia and New Zealand.
She is one of the most significant historical and religious figures in Australian history, and will become Australia's first Catholic saint on October 17th 2010.
This dramatic musical uses music of the era, including traditional Scottish, Irish, Australian folk and Aboriginal music, to paint impressions of her life, faith and times in an accessible stage, arena or concert production that can be performed by secondary schools, amateur and professional companies.
