blessed mother mary mckillum is her counted's first saint.t's not every day an australian becomes a santd saint and draws world attention. so there's even a sold out musical of her life that included a brief excommunication because she upset the local bishops. our reporter is stewart cohen in sidney. >>. >> the musical was ten years in the making. the creation of a part time composer the director says her life was well suited to be made into a musical. >> some quite dramatic liturgical, ecclesiastical moments in her life. she gets excommunicated, she gets forgiven, she has to go to the pope, she meets the pope, she comes back. >> reporter: mary mackillop was born to scottish immigrant parents in 1842. she became a nun at 25 and dedicated her life to educating children throughout australia's isolated rural areas. she co-founded the country's first religious order, the sisters of saint joseph, and opened dozens of schools across the country's vast outback. in 1871 she was excommunicated, in part for exposing a pedophile priest. she was reinstat