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Having lived through two World Wars, an economic depression and an epoch of oppressive government policies towards Indigenous people, Sister Eucharia really overcame extraordinary odds to achieve all that she did. Plagued by poor circulation in her legs |
Having lived through two World Wars, an economic depression and an epoch of oppressive government policies towards Indigenous people, Sister Eucharia really overcame extraordinary odds to achieve all that she did. Plagued by poor circulation in her legs, and serving most of her time as a nun in the sweltering humid heat of the tropics of Northern Australia, Sister Eucharia was restricted her mobility, a disability which plagued her for life. Not letting it interfere with her work, Sister Eucharia worked with Aboriginal children in the early missions and later with leprosy patients. |
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Olive May Pearce, also known as Sister Eucharia was born 14 December 1914.[1] She was made a member the Order of the British Empire in 1981.[1]
Introduction
In 1914, Olive May Pearce was born as the second child into a humble, working class family with no strong religious ties. Olive woke one morning at the age of 14 to a vivid dream calling her into the service of the church and eight years later, became a nun in the order of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart as Sister Eucharia.[2] In 1981, aged 67, after four decades of services, Sister Eucharia was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in a ceremony on Bathurst Island. in 1969, Sister Eucharia founded Bima Wear clothing label, with the dual purpose of creating clothes and jobs for the local people of the Tiwi Islands.[3] [4]
Early life
Spending her early years in various towns in regional NSW, Olive moved with her family to the Sydney suburb of Enfield where she worked with her father in a cake shop for a short time before becoming a domestic servant, and eventually a nun in 1933. [4]
Later life
Having lived through two World Wars, an economic depression and an epoch of oppressive government policies towards Indigenous people, Sister Eucharia really overcame extraordinary odds to achieve all that she did. Plagued by poor circulation in her legs, and serving most of her time as a nun in the sweltering humid heat of the tropics of Northern Australia, Sister Eucharia was restricted her mobility, a disability which plagued her for life. Not letting it interfere with her work, Sister Eucharia worked with Aboriginal children in the early missions and later with leprosy patients.
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References
- ^ a b Eucharia, Sister Mary (14 December 1914). "Sister Mary Eucharia". Territory Stories. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ Territory Stories http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/218060?mode=full. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
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- ^ a b al.], editor David Carment ... [et (2008). Northern Territory dictionary of biography (Rev. ed. ed.). Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press. ISBN 9780980384697.
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