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Mary was born in Australia to a Scottish immigrant couple in the year of Our Lord 1842. To help support her family, Mary temporarily set aside her desire to enter religious life and opened a Catholic school with the help of her mother and siblings. After a few years, a parish priest helped Mary begin an order of nuns called the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, known as the Josephites or “Brown Joeys”. The order quickly grew and opened several schools, but a conflict with certain priests led to scurrilous rumors about the sisters that prompted one bishop to excommunicate Mary on trumped-up grounds of disobedience. Mary, though heartbroken, submitted to the bishop and insisted that her friends and the sisters continue to respect the authority of the clergy. Several months later, as the bishop’s health was declining, he reconciled with Mary and lifted her excommunication. A Vatican investigation soon cleared Mary of any wrongdoing, and thenceforth she received steady support from Rome. After serving twice as superior of the Josephites, Mary died in the year of Our Lord 1909. She was canonized by Pope St. John Paul II as the first saint born in Australia.
AT Rome, the holy martyrs Cyriacus, deacon, Largus, and Smaragdus, with twenty others, who suffered on the 16th of March, in the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian. Their bodies were buried on the Salarian road by the priest John, but were on this day translated by pope St. Marcellus to the estate of Lucina, on the Ostian way. Afterwards they were brought to Rome, and placed in the Church of St. Mary in Via Lata (the title of a cardinal-deacon).
At Anzarba, in Cilicia, St. Marinus, an aged man, who was scourged, racked, and lacerated, and died by being exposed to wild beasts, in the time of the emperor Diocletian and the governor Lysias.
Also, the holy martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides, who underwent martyrdom by fire.
In Persia, St. Hormisdas, a martyr, under king Sapor.
At Cyzicum, in Hellespont, St. AEmilian, bishop, who ended his life in exile after having suffered much from the emperor Leo for the worship of holy images.
In Crete, St. Myron, a bishop renowned for miracles.
At Vienne, in France, St. Severus, priest and confessor, who undertook a painful journey from India in order to preach the Gospel in that city, and converted a great number of Pagans to the faith of Christ by his labors and miracles.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.