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How Did Caroline Chrisolm Change Australia

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Caroline Chrisolm was a great Australian Catholic. She always took action if she saw inequality between people. Many people agreed that if Australia was to have another canonised saint it would be Caroline Chrisolm. Chrisom was born on 30 May 1808, at Northampton in the United Kingdom. Chrisom and her husband Archibald Chisholm first travelled to India in 1832 where she was sent to Madras (present day Chennai) where she founded the education institute for the Daughters of European Soldiers. Soon the Chisholm’s decided to go to Sydney, Australia, they went on the Emerald Isle on the 15th of September 1838 and settled in Winsor with her three sons. Chrisolm met every immigrant that came to Sydney. She helped immigrants and sheltered many of them in her home. In January 1841 she met the Governor and Lady Gipps and the Sydney Herald with a plan for a girls' home. Facing discouragement, she however, convinced Lady Gipps that she was a humanitarian. Chrisolm’s next step was to return to England where she established the Family Colonisation Loan Society. This loan provided money needed by migrant families to travel to Australia. The society also helped the new arrivals in Australia to find jobs. Chrisolm died on the 25 March 1877 at Highgate in the United Kingdom because she was too poor to have any food or survive. Throughout her life Caroline Chrisolm demonstrated a …show more content…

Her faith was shown through her belief, sacrificial mentality and her kind heart. She kept on going even with discouragement, even in the most tough of situations. She is well known for her work and was motivated by a strong sense of vocation gained from a wish to do God’s will. She embodied a wide range of value, as seen through her support of many migrants - even when she was poor herself she continued helping migrants in Australia. Chrisolm showed the Caritas values of benevolence and universalism throughout her life and followed the footsteps of

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