Knowing nothing about Mary MacKillop except that she’s Australia’s only saint seemed a mark of being uneducated or at least a protestant. Why did I want to walk in her path? No Camino in Spain, Italy, France or even Japan was on offer in 2020 during the Covid pandemic. Too much reflection? Too much time for reflection? Planning to walk the Mary MacKillop trail, it seemed imperative to learn about Mary. Learn about saints too. How did Mary become a saint? How does anyone become a saint? I focused on female saints. In 2009, one hundred years after Mary’s death, Pope Benedict XVI approved the second miracle attributed to Mary McKillop. The following year, 50,000 pilgrims joined the ceremony that officially declared Australia’s first Catholic saint – Saint Mary MacKillop of the Cross. Kath, whose cancer cure was recognized as the second miracle, carried a wooden cross made from redgum fence posts at the first school co-established by Mary MacKillop in 1866 in Penola. We’ll walk our way to Penola. Now, we’re in Portland outside the All Saints Catholic Church that was completed in 1862, the same year that Mary MacKillop started living in Portland.