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Ursula Frayne, a great educationalist, founded no order and may or may not have been a saint . . . She travelled 55,000 miles, and brought education to Newfoundland and Australia. She worked to better the situation of Aborigines, of immigrant Irish orphan girls, of the poor, the uneducated and the needy. She wrote to Queen Victoria, met Florence Nightingale, Pope Pius IX and the Earl of Shrewsbury, and tried to meet Ned Kelly, who tried to meet her.
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