Mary MacKillop the subject of several artistic productions, including the 1994 film "Mary", directed by Kay Pavlou with Lucy Bell as MacKillop; "Her Holiness", a play by Justin Fleming; and "MacKillop", a dramatic musical created by Victorian composer Xavier Brouwer and first performed for pilgrims at World Youth Day 2008 in Melbourne. Novelist Pamela Freeman's "The Black Dress" is a fictionalised biography of MacKillop's childhood and young adulthood. In 2000, the State Transit Authority named a SuperCat ferry after MacKillop. Mary MacKillop Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian nun who has been declared a
Saint Elizabeth of the Hill Country Catholic Church Saint Elizabeth of the Hill Country Catholic Church Saint Elizabeth of the Hill Country Catholic Church is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte located in Boone, North Carolina. Its canonical territory includes all of Watauga County. Father Matthew Codd is the pastor. The parish had its beginnings in the 1940s for the few Catholic families and students at Appalachian State University. Early celebrations of Mass took place in the homes of residents before a new church was built in 1958. Priests from St. John Baptiste deLasalle in North Wilkesboro served the people in this new parish.