Sr Mary Carroll receives her award from Sr Winnifred Doherty:- Congregational representative to the United Nations in New York
Sr Mary Carroll
Spirit of St Mary Euphrasia Award Winner 2010
Sr Mary Carroll was named the inaugural Spirit of St Mary Euphrasia Award winner on Tuesday (September 28) at the 2010 GSANZ Network Gathering in Melbourne. Mary, who celebrated her Golden Jubilee as a Good Shepherd Sister last year, was honoured for her decades of work with women in Victorian prisons.
Mary began as a prison chaplain more than 30 years ago after working in Good Shepherd institutions and hostels. Along with Sr Barb Walsh, Mary was also instrumental in Good Shepherd starting a community and agency in St Kilda.
Mary works most days at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, the maximum security women‘s prison in Melbourne‘s west. She moved from the old Fairlea Women‘s Prison in Fairfield, to the newly-built facility in Deer Park in 1996.
Links to the full story of Mary‘s work in the prisons, as well as her many other achievements, will be in October‘s E Bulletin, as well as included in this website. Many GS people from around Australia and New Zealand attended the Network Gathering. There were also good wishes from afar. Antonia Symonds from the Good Shepherd Centre at Nongkhai, in Thailand, wrote – Every blessing for this great event. May your coming together be an affirmation of all that is good within Good Shepherd ministries in Australia and New Zealand and an encouragement to all present, to continue with fervour, the work begun by St Mary Euphrasia and her lay partners.
