List of Australian saints

The following is a list of Roman Catholic canonized saints and beatified people of Australia. The list includes all Catholic saints, blesseds, and Servants of God with Australian connections, either because they were of Australian origin and ethnicity, or because they travelled to Australia from their own homeland and became noted in their hagiography for their work in Australia and amongst the Australian people. A small number may have had no Australian connection in their lifetime, but have nonetheless become associated with Australia through the depositing of their relics in Australian religious houses.

Saints

Blesseds

None since October 17, 2010

Venerables

None since June 13, 1992

Servants of God
  • Caroline Jones Chisholm (1808-1877), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Canberra-Gourlburn (England, United Kingdom - New South Wales, Australia) [2]
  • Eileen Rosaline O'Connor (1892-1921), Founder of the Society of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor (Melbourne, Australia - New South Wales, Australia)[3] [4]
  • Mary Glowrey (Mary of the Sacred Heart) (1887-1957), Professed Religious of the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph (Victoria, Australia - Bayalu Seeme, India) [5]
  • Constance Helen Gladman (Mary Rosina) (1922-1964), Professed Religious of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart; Martyr (Koroit, Australia - East New Britain, Papua New Guinea) [6]

Candidates for sainthood
  • Julian Tenison-Woods (1832-1889), Priest of the Archdiocese of Sydney; Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (London, England - Sydney, Australia)
  • Ellen Whitty (Mary Vincent) (1819 - 1892), Professed Religious of the Religious Sisters of Mary (Wexford, Ireland - Queensland, Australia)
  • Joseph Augustine Canali, (1841-1915), Priest of the Archdiocese of Brisbane (Rome, Italy - Queensland, Australia)[7]
  • David Bertram McCullagh (1911-1942) and Clifford Ambrose Brennan (1916-1942), Professed Priests of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Martyrs (Australia - near Fuga Island, Cagayan, Philippines)
  • Frederick Gerard Mannes (Augustinus) (1908-1942), John Clarence Roberts (John William) (1910-1942), and Francis Joseph Fitzgerald (Donatus Joseph) (1910-1942), Professed Religious' of the Marist Brothers of the Schools; Martyrs (Australia - Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)
  • Timothy Edward McGrath (1881-1977), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Founder of the Society of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor (Victoria, Australia - New South Wales, Australia)
  • Irene McCormack (1938-1991), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart; Martyr (Western Australia, Australia - Junín, Peru)[8]
  • Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria (1915-1998), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
  • John Billings (1918-2007) and Evelyn Livingston Billings (1918-2010), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
  • Rosemary Goldie (1916-2010), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia)
  • Patrick Dougherty (1931-2010), Bishop of Bathurst (New South Wales, Australia)

Orthodox
  • The Venerable Father Nikanor (Savić) of Athos, Australia and New Zealand was the Abbot of Hilandar before moving to Australia to pacify the schism (resulting from communism and its fall) between the Patriarchal Diocese and the New Gracanica Metropolitanate's Diocese. He reposed in 1990, was glorified by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2010, and celebrated each year on March 4 (both calendars).[9]

See also

References
  1. "Canonisation" Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, May 2016
  2. "The Cause of Caroline Chisholm" CathNews, 24 January 2014
  3. "After a life of pain, Eileen O'Connor may be Australia's next saint" Sydney Morning Herald, 19 August 2018
  4. "Sainthood cause opens for Eileen O'Connor" The Catholic Weekly, 21 February 2020
  5. "Mary Glowrey On Path to Sainthood" The Catholic Weekly, 21 March 2013
  6. "Push for former Koroit nun's canonisation" The Standard, 28 December 2018
  7. "Faith-filled Australian lives celebrated during Ad Limina visit" Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, 27 June 2019
  8. "Sister Irene McCormack: Australia's next Saint?". St Columbans Mission Society. Archived from the original on 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  9. https://orthodoxwiki.org/Nikanor_(Savic)
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