Mary Glowrey
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CATH NEWS REPORT: The Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, has announced that the preliminary phase of the cause for canonisation of an Australian woman, Mary Glowrey, has commenced in Bangalore, India, according to a media release.Mary Glowrey served in India as a medical missionary with a Dutch religious order of sisters from 1920 until her death in 1957.
The preliminary phase involves the evaluation of her work and writings, together with her religious life.
The Archbishop of Bangalore, the Most Rev. Dr. Bernard Moras, appointed Fr Paul Puthanangady on November 11 to assist and guide Congregation of the Society of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the preparation of all documents and records needed in the preliminary phase of Mary Glowrey's cause.
The Catholic Women's League of Victoria and Wagga Wagga hold more than 80% of Mary Glowrey's personal writings, and are working with the religious order, preparing for the commencement of Mary Glowrey's cause.
Mary Glowrey left Melbourne for India in 1920 at the age of 33 years, leaving behind her thriving career as an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist.
Her religious vocation came in 1915 in her Collins St. rooms after attending Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral. During a chance reading of a pamphlet about the appalling death rate amongst babies in India and the need there for medical missionaries, she fell to her knees and knew that God was calling her to a life of medical mission work in India.
She would wait until after the end of World War One before being able to travel to India. The small dispensary in Guntur where she began her work grew into St Joseph's Hospital.
Recognising the vital need to promote the Christian use of medicine, Mary Glowrey founded the Catholic Hospital Association of India (CHAI) in 1943.
Her vision was the establishment of a Catholic Medical College in India to train health professionals whose medical care would be grounded in an understanding of the absolute inviolability of human life and placed at the service of life. In 1967, ten years after her death, St Johns Medical College was built in Bangalore.
Mary Glowrey was known never to attempt anything without praying to the Holy Spirit, knowing that with the help of the Holy Spirit all things are possible.
At her requiem Mass, the Bishop of Guntur described Mary Glowrey as a "...special creation of God...a great soul who embraced the whole world.http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=2440
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