There's Something About Mary....and Penola Glenroy, South Australia, Australia
By Sol de Lune on 27-Jul-17. Waypoint GA10352

Penola South Australia

Penola is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located about 338 kilometres (210 mi) southeast of the state capital of Adelaide in the wine growing area known as the Coonawarra. At the 2006 census, Penola had a population of 1,317.

It is known as the central location in the life of Mary MacKillop (St. Mary of the Cross), the first Australian to gain Roman Catholic sainthood, who alongside Julian Tenison Woods in 1866 established the first free Catholic school using the Woods/MacKillop Catholic education system in Australia, St. Joseph's School.   Woods and MacKillop also established in Penola 'her' order of nuns, the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. The order, otherwise known as the 'Josephites' or 'Brown Joeys', continue to work with the poor and needy communities throughout the world today.   (Thansk to Wikipedia for that info....)

So this is where Mary MacKillop started her work.   If you'e been caching for a while, you may have found the odd 'Mary MacKillop' cache around the traps.     However this cache is not about Mary herself, its about her home town and the way into it from the north.    

This is another cache placed in an area that is a little devoid of Geocaching Australia caches, and gives travellers the chance to grab another cache.    Oh, and if you like a good drop of wine, the Coonawarra area cellar doors are just down the road. 

Hope you enjoy the area.....

(LuckyL10n was with me when the cache was placed and will log his find after the first to find has been claimed.)

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