Mother Margaret Mary Healy Murphy. Sister Mary Joseph McNally. Sister Mary Aloyslus McMullen. and Sister Mary Alphonsus Cronyn took their first vows in San Antonios Our Lady of Light Catholic Church and initiated the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate. an order devoted to teaching and ministering to the needs of AfricanAmericans and other poor and disenfranchised citizens. Mary Margaret Healy was born in Ireland in 1833. and immigrated with her father to Matamoros. Mexico. to escape the potato famine. In her new home she met a Texas lawyer named John Bernard Murphy. whom she married in 1849.
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