Mary Magdalen Healy

Biography

Mary Magdalen Healy, CND (born Eliza Healy; December 23, 1846 – September 13, 1919) was an American Catholic religious sister who served in the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal. Healy was born into the notable Healy family of Macon, Georgia; her father was a white Irish planter and her mother was an enslaved African-American woman of mixed race. The Healy children were reared in Irish-American culture; the girls were educated at French-language schools in Quebec.

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