In 1861 Father Julian Tenison-Woods discussed the possibility of setting up a system of Catholic schools in South Australia with the Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide, Bishop Geohagen. Tenison-Woods was passionate about education for the poor, and was supported in this vision by Mary MacKillop, whose family were members of his parish. With Tenison-Woods' support, MacKillop and her sister opened a school at Penola, in the colony's south-east, in 1865. A year later MacKillop and Tenison-Woods jointly founded the teaching order of the Sisters of Saint Joseph at Penola. The order grew rapidly, establishing schools, charities, and women's shelters around the colony. In 1871 MacKillop was excommunicated by Bishop Shiel for alleged insubordination, but some months later the excommunication was removed, and MacKillop travelled to Rome to obtain papal approval for her order's Rule of Life. The Sisters were granted self-government rather than the oversight of local bishops. In 1881 the headquarters of the order was moved from Adelaide to Sydney, where MacKillop died in 1909. In 1972 MacKillop's name was put forward as a candidate for beatification, as a first step towards sainthood. On 17 October 2010 she was canonised, becoming Australia's first saint.