Her father, Edward Glowrey, operated the general store at Birregurra, then hotels at Garvoc and Watchem.

[5] Glowrey later returned to the University of Melbourne to undertake higher medical studies, graduating with a Doctor of Medicine in 1919 in obstetrics, gynaecology and ophthalmology.

[6] In 1911, Glowrey became the first female doctor at Christchurch Hospital and one of the first two women appointed to a residency position in New Zealand.

[5] In October 1916, the Catholic Women’s Social Guild was formed at a meeting at Cathedral Hall, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

[8] Glowrey boarded at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital from 1915 to 1919 and took on many of the medical duties of the male doctors who signed up to serve in the First World War.

[10] Glowrey discerned this religious vocation over subsequent years with her spiritual director, Father William Lockington SJ.

The basic dispensary where Glowrey began her medical mission work in Guntur grew into St Joseph’s Hospital.

[11] Glowrey provided direct medical care for hundreds of thousands of patients, most of them marginalised women.