History, references and information on the agencies of the Good Shepherd Sisters in Australia.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD SISTERS (RGS) 1863 In 1863 following an invitation from the Bishop James Goold, four Sisters of the Good Shepherd arrived in Melbourne. Although they were Irish they came from Angers, a town in France where the order had been established in 1835 by Mother, later Saint Mary Euphrasie Pelletier. Melbourne in the aftermath of the gold rushes and the accelerated rate of migration ...