Catherine Coffey
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Catherine Coffey
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Catherine Brosnaham Coffey was an Irish-born Australian pioneer in the Port Phillip District who was the first Catholic school teacher in Melbourne and the first sacristan of the first Catholic church in Victoria, St Francis. She taught catechism classes to children in colonial Melbourne prior to the arrival of the colony's first Catholic priest in 1839. Coffey’s contribution to Catholic education was celebrated in a St Patrick’s Day pageant at the Melbourne Town Hall in 1930 and she was singled
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Teacher of Catholic catechism in colonial Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Coffey
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2023-09-27T09:26:13Z
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