About us


Margaret Hebblethwaite (centre right) celebrating with the graduates of the Santa María Institute, January 2004

Margaret Hebblethwaite is an author, journalist and theologian, with experience in prison work, Ignatian retreat-giving and preaching to Oxford university students. From 1991 she was assistant editor at the Tablet, until she gave up her job in 2000 to go and live in Santa María de Fe, Paraguay, as a sort of freelance missionary. She writes a monthly column "From the South" in the Tablet about Santa María. For a list of Margaret's publications and activities please click here

Margaret is supported in the UK by a number of friends, who help with various aspects of the administration of the Santa Maria Education Fund. Among them are:

Kate Brown, webmistress and trustee:

Kate is a theatre and opera director. She was at school with Margaret and helps now with the SMEF database and other computerised necessities.

Catherine Brady, trustee:

Catherine runs her own business in Loughborough which specialises in the training and development of young people.

Matthew O'Sullivan, treasurer:

Marianne Lavery, contact for parish sales of Santa Maria Craft:

Marianne looks after the craftwork stores in the UK and can supply packs of assorted craft, for example for parish sales. She speaks Spanish, and has lived for most of her life in underdeveloped countries in Africa and the Far East.

Mimi and Richard Stephens, mailings:

After retiring from teaching at Mount St Mary's College in 2000, Mimi met Margaret in Campion Hall, Oxford, where "quick as a wink she got out her pen to make a note of my address when I offered to help."

Sister Anne Gill, ODN, consultant:

Anne Gill is a religious sister who has lived and worked for 25 years in Latin America, 14 of which were spent in Santa María. She helped to establish the Sewing Co-operative, or Taller de Hermandad.

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