Venerable Mary of the Sacred Heart Glowrey (1887 to 1957) was an Australian born doctor who  served as a pioneering medical missionary in India for 37 years. In 1920, responding to a vocational call to serve as a Sister doctor, Mary Glowrey left her homeland and joined the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph in Guntur, India. Known as Sr Mary of the Sacred Heart JMJ, she provided medical care for hundreds of thousands of marginalised people, particularly women and children. Mary established medical facilities and healthcare training. In 1943 she founded an organisation, now known as Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), that is today India’s largest non- government healthcare network. Her cause for canonisation was initiated in India by the Bishop of Guntur and supported by the Congregation of Jesus Mary Joseph, the order she she joined in India.  She was given the title Servant of God in 2013. On 21 November 2025 Pope Leo XIV issued a decree which recognised her life of heroic virtues and thus accorded her the title Venerable. She is just second Australian-born person to receive this honour.