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
The Glories of Mary The Glories of Mary The Glories of Mary is a classic book in the field of Roman Catholic Mariology, written during the 18th century by Saint Alphonsus Liguori, a Doctor of the Church. The book was written at a time when some Jansenists (which were declared heretical by the Pope) were criticizing Marian devotions, and was written in part as a defense of Marian devotion. The book combines numerous citations in favor of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church with Saint Alphonsus' own personal views on Marian veneration and includes