Unto These Last: The Story of Mother Aubert and Her Great Work

Suzanne Aubert worked with the Maori, and cared for the sick in Auckland and Hawkes Bay.

She founded The Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion, known as Sisters of Compassion, in Jerusalem, New Zealand on the Whanganui River in 1892.

Concerned with the many social problems in Wellington she left Jerusalem arriving in Wellington in 1899 with three other sisters. In Wellington the sisters very soon established a Home for people with incurable illness; a soup kitchen and a crèche. The Home of Compassion at Island Bay opened in 1907, later becoming the headquarters of the Sisters of Compassion, and the formation house where the Sisters did their religious training.

Mother Aubert died at Island Bay on 1 October 1926, aged 91. Her funeral was reported in the newspapers as the greatest ever to be accorded to a woman in New Zealand.