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Suzanne Aubert - Our FoundressSuzanne Aubert grew up in a French provincial family. Lyon's missionary spirit brought her to live with Maori girls in war-anxious 1860s Auckland. She nursed Maori and Pakeha in Hawke's Bay as the settler population swelled in the 1870s. In the 1880s and 1890s, up the Whanganui at Hiruharama/Jerusalem, she broke in a hill farm, published a Maori text, manufactured medicines, set up the only New Zealand home-grown Catholic congregation, and gathered babies and children through the family-fracturing years of economic depression. The turn of the century sent her windswept skirts through the streets of the capital. There she would be a constant sign of warm caring and tolerance until she died in 1926. - Jessie Munro "As you are destined to sympathise with every suffering, your title must be (Daughters) of Our Lady of Compassion". - Archbishop Redwood 1892 For more information on Suzanne Aubert, click to view a Publications list
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