St Michael's House was an Australian educational institution in Crafers outside Adelaide, under the auspices of the Society of the Sacred Mission, established in 1947 and which was destroyed by fire in the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983 shortly after its closure.
Bakewell's daughter, Audine, married an Irish doctor, Arthur Pryce Evelyn O'Leary.
[3] SSM had been established in London in 1893 by Fr Herbert Kelly and the following year began training working-class men for the priesthood.
[7][8] It was the students at St Michael's House (along with those of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne) who were the first in Australia to observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, in the 1950s.
[9] St Michael's students protested against the Vietnam War, regarded as a controversial act at the time.