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
Church of the Immaculate Conception (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana) marble from the reredos (high altar) was used to create an altar, lectern, and a presider's chair in 1986. When the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods arrived in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana in 1840, there was no church on the site, and a log cabin served as its first chapel. Saint Mother Théodore Guérin, the foundress of the order, described the primitive chapel to friends in France, "The Church! Yes, dear friends, that is the dwelling of the God of the Universe, in comparison with which the stables wherein you shelter your cattle are palaces!" The log chapel was dismantled