Friday, 16 April 2021

Suzanne Aubert, New Zealand's 1st saint!

 Suzanne Aubert was born on 19 June 1835,Suzanne Aubert was a young woman Who started the sisters of compassion.

In 1860, Suzanne came To Nz She learned to Speak Maori,she went to Nz because She wanted to escape an Arranged marriage.

She went to Auckland to work there and try to start the Sisters of Compassion but she became a missionary for Bishop Pompallier.

Later that year she lefted Auckland and went to Hawks bay and she Joined the maori mission station and after that she Started the sisters of compassion.

Suzanne Aubert started a Home for orphones.

On the evening of 5 January 1899 Suzanne Aubert and her three Sisters arrived with two shillings and sixpence at the Te Aro Railway Station in Wellington from Wanganui.

Suzanne often visited the Lynch family whom she had met on the West Coast in 1889. 

They lived in Ferndale House, Molesworth Street next to the Premier, Richard Seddon, whose daughter Elizabeth became a close friend of Suzanne.

On Christmas Day 1885, Bishop Redwood blessed St Joseph’s Church. When it was burnt down three years later.

her tour, Suzanne had become acutely aware of the challenges faced by poor and unmarried mothers and their babies. 

She took 74 babies and children into their care but Hiruhārama was too isolated from medical services. 

So Suzanne set her sights on Wellington, arriving unannounced in the city in 1899 with two Sisters.

Since Suzanne Aubert’s death on 1 October 1926,people from all walks of life have acknowledged her goodness and holiness.

Suzanne Aubert was buried 3 times



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