At a glance
- Address: 390 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst
- Founded: 1857 by the Irish Sisters of Charity at Tarmons, Potts Point (Woolloomooloo Heights), as a free hospital for the poor
- Moved here: 1870, to a new purpose-built hospital on a Crown grant in Victoria Street; that building, remodelled after World War I, is now the De Lacy Building
- Founding Sisters: arrived in Sydney on the Francis Spaight, 31 December 1838
- Status: standing, operating public teaching hospital
St Vincent’s Hospital Darlinghurst
Transcription:
[plaque photographed upside down; sun-dappled]
A.M.D.G. / THORACIC BLOCK / [?THIS] STONE WAS BLESSED [illegible] BY / HIS EMINENCE / NORMAN THOMAS CARDINAL GILROY / CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY / AND SET BY / DR THE HON D A CAMERON O.B.E. [?M.P.] / COMMONWEALTH MINISTER FOR HEALTH / DURING THE CENTENARY YEAR OF / ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL
Transcription:
THIS STATUE OF SAINT JOSEPH WAS ORIGINALLY LOCATED AT THE FIRST ST. VINCENT’S PRIVATE HOSPITAL AND SUBSEQUENTLY BABWORTH HOUSE, DARLING POINT.
IT HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO COMMEMORATE THE GENEROUS GESTURE OF
MAJOR HAROLD DE VAHL RUBIN
WHO IN 1957, PURCHASED AND DONATED BABWORTH HOUSE TO THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, AS AN AFTER CARE UNIT TO ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL.
PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF BABWORTH HOUSE HAVE BEEN CONTRIBUTED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE XAVIER BUILDING OF THE HOSPITAL.
Transcription:
THIS STATUE OF MARY WAS ORIGINALLY LOCATED ON THE XAVIER NURSES HOME WHICH OPENED IN MARCH 1913 AND WAS DEMOLISHED IN JUNE 1984
MARY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY LOCATED IN THE AIKENHEAD MEMORIAL GARDEN AND HAS BEEN RELOCATED HERE AS A TRIBUTE TO PAST NURSES OF ST. VINCENT’S HOSPITAL AND AS A MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO HAVE DIED.
Transcription:
“He sent them out to proclaim the reign of God and to heal” [?Lk 9:2]
This foundation stone for St. Vincent’s Xavier building was blessed by Cardinal Edward Clancy Archbishop of Sydney and laid by Hon. Craig Knowles MP NSW Minister for Health in the year of the Great Jubilee 29th May 2000
[?Sr Annette Cunliffe RSC] / Congregational Leader / Sisters of Charity of Australia
[?Mr Peter Joseph OAM] / Chairman / Sisters of Charity Health Service / Darlinghurst Regional Board
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LEADING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH · IN THE TRADITION OF THE SISTERS OF CHARITY
JUSTICE · INTEGRITY · COMPASSION · EXCELLE[NCE]
