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
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception (Lafayette, Indiana) Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception (Lafayette, Indiana) The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana. It is located at 1207 Columbia Street in Lafayette, Indiana. It is also a contributing property in the St. Mary Historic District. The congregation began in 1843 when a small group of Irish Catholic families in the area met for Mass in rented space. By the following year, they raised enough money to construct their own building. The brick "Church of Sts. Mary and Martha" stood at the intersection