Mary passes away in her bed on the ground floor of Alma Cottage in Mount Street, North Sydney.
Mary’s old friend Sister Annette says: “There were no struggles at her death. As we said prayers, her lips used to move in unison. She was conscious up to the moment of her death and was able to press my hand, the blessed candle was in her hand all the time.”
Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran, who administers the Last Rites to Mary, says: “I consider this day to have assisted at the deathbed of a saint.”
On 11 August, the Requiem Mass is celebrated at St Mary’s Catholic Church, North Sydney with the burial at Gore Hill Cemetery.