Penola, South Australia
Penola is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located about 388 kilometres southeast of the state capital of Adelaide in the wine growing area known as the Coonawarra. At the 2016 census, town of Penola had a population of 1,312.It is known as the central location in the life of Mary MacKillop, the first Australian to gain Roman Catholic sainthood, in 1995. In 1866 McKillop and a Catholic priest, Julian Tenison-Woods, established a Catholic... Show more school in the town. Penola was on the Mount Gambier to Wolseley railway line which opened in 1887, until its closure to freight on 12 April 1995, and then to Limestone Coast Railway tourist passengers on 1 July 2006.