About the Author

Marie Therese Foale, who was born at Pinnaroo in the South Australian Murray Mallee, entered the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at an early age. She worked as a teacher in a number of Josephite schools for thirty years before serving as Archivist for the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide for a further twenty. She has had a lifelong interest in the history of her Congregation. This volume and her other works are the result of that interest.