Sisters of the Good Samaritan

[2] Foundations were made throughout Sydney and New South Wales as bishops urgently requested staff for Catholic schools.

Under the leadership of Mother Berchmans, who was superior general from 1898 to 1916, the order expanded greatly, from nineteen communities to thirty nine, with expansion into four additional states.

During this era, the education of students in the Good Samaritan schools and colleges became a shared ministry with lay people.

Initially, they established a dispensary to care for victims of the 1945 atomic bomb, but later went on to open a secondary school and kindergarten.

In a spirit of reconciliation with their Asian neighbours, the Good Samaritan Japanese sisters desired to begin a community in the Philippines.

[7] This article incorporates text from a publication by Marilyn Kelleher SGS, Annals of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict, published 2010, Volume II - 1938-1949, pp.