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 Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Columbus, Ohio) Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Columbus, Ohio) Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (commonly known as St. Mary Church or Grand Old St. Mary's) is the third oldest Catholic church building in Columbus, Ohio and is home to an active parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. The church's name refers to the ancient Christian belief that the mother of Jesus Christ was "assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." The church spire towers 197 feet (60 m) above street level making it a prominent landmark and the tallest building in the historic German Village neighborhood