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17 May @ 2:00 pm
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17 May @ 3:00 pm
Location
Sydney
Speaker: Sarah Gilbert
Sarah Gilbert is a skilled and experienced storyteller, whose work spans documentary film and television, print and broadcast journalism, and literary non-fiction.
She has worked on many television documentary projects, with a focus on Australian history.
In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior.
Location, time
Sunday afternoons at 2.00pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Crypt of St Patrick’s at Church Hill [Grosvenor Street], The Rocks. Members and non-members are welcome to join us in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Attendance is free but a gold coin donation for afternoon tea is welcome.
Enquiries to: Secretary, secretaryachs@gmail.com
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Sydney
Date :
17
May
2026
Time :
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cost :
Free
Categories:
“Unconventional women”: History of Blessed Sacrament Sisters
“Unconventional women”: History of Blessed Sacrament Sisters
Organiser
Australian Catholic Historical Society
secretaryachs@gmail.com
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Speaker: Sarah Gilbert
Sarah Gilbert is a skilled and experienced storyteller, whose work spans documentary film and television, print and broadcast journalism, and literary non-fiction.
She has worked on many television documentary projects, with a focus on Australian history.
In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior.
Location, time
Sunday afternoons at 2.00pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Crypt of St Patrick’s at Church Hill [Grosvenor Street], The Rocks. Members and non-members are welcome to join us in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Attendance is free but a gold coin donation for afternoon tea is welcome.
Enquiries to: Secretary, secretaryachs@gmail.com