Suzanne Aubert

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Suzanne Aubert (19 June 1835 - 1 October 1926), better known to many by her name of Sister Mary Joseph or Mother Aubert, was a Catholic sister who started a home for orphans and the under-privileged in Jerusalem, New Zealand on the Whanganui River in 1885. She founded a religious order, the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion in 1892. She later started two hospitals in Wellington; the first, St Joseph's Home for Incurables in 1900, and Our Lady's Home of Compassion in 1907.

Sister Mary is said to likely be the first New Zealander to be made into a Saint.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Objects relating to Mother Aubert from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

• NZDB biography

• Mother Aubert New Zealand's Patron Saint of Pot