Australia to issue stamp and postcard of country's first saint
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PERTH, Australia — Blessed Mary MacKillop, known as a prolific letter-writer, will be immortalized on an Australian stamp and limited-edition collector's postcard to be issued Oct. 18, the day after Pope Benedict XVI canonizes her as St. Mary of the Cross in Rome.
Sister Sheila McCreanor, secretary-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, which Blessed MacKillop co-founded in 1866, said the stamp is "entirely appropriate given she was such a great letter-writer." Sister Sheila has edited three published volumes of Blessed MacKillop's letters.
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