Suzanne Aubert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Suzanne Aubert

New Zealand Roman Catholic nun

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1835

Place of Birth: Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1926

Profession: nun

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Suzanne Aubert (19 June 1835 – 1 October 1926), better known to many by her cleric name Sister Mary Joseph or Mother Aubert, was a Catholic sister who started a home for orphans and the under-privileged in Jerusalem, New Zealand on the Whanganui River in 1885.
Aubert first came to New Zealand in 1860 and formed the Congregation of the Holy Family to educate Maori children.
She founded a religious order, the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion in 1892.
Aubert later started two hospitals in Wellington; the first, St Joseph's Home for the Incurables in 1900, and Our Lady's Home of Compassion in 1907. Aubert devoted her life to helping others.
Her work took her from France to Auckland then to Hawke’s Bay, to the Whanganui River and finally to Wellington.
And along the way, she founded a new Catholic congregation, cared for children and the sick, by skilfully combining Maori medicine and Pakeha science, and wrote books in Maori, English and French adding significantly to a higher cultural understanding and literary heritage. Aubert was actively engaged with the local Maori population and spoke Maori well.
She wrote a book New and complete manual of Maori conversation : containing phrases and dialogues on a variety of useful and interesting topics : together with a few general rules of grammar : and a comprehensive vocabulary which was published in Wellington by Lyon and Blair in 1885.The process for Suzanne Aubert's canonisation as a saint was commenced in 2010.