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James Augustine Healy

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Healy returned to Boston in August 1854. Knowing there were rumors about his heritage in Boston, he expressed his apprehension about serving there to a confidante: "The mercy of God has placed a poor outcast on a throne of glory that ill becomes him. If I could have been as safe elsewhere as here, I
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James Healy entered Holy Cross in August 1844 and would later recount in his diary, "Today, 5 years ago I entered this college. What a change. Then I was nothing, now I am a Catholic." He and his brothers Hugh, Patrick, and Sherwood were baptized at Holy Cross in November 1844, alongside the sons of
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for White and they did not publicize their Black heritage. James and his siblings were recorded as White in official documents, such as census records and death certificates. In later years, James discouraged biographies and variously described his mother as the daughter of an aristocratic
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named Healy as pastor of St. James Parish, the largest Catholic congregation in Boston. In that position, he helped found the House of the Good Shepherd for homeless girls and successfully lobbied against legislation in the
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in exceptional circumstances. Before their deaths a few months apart in 1850, Michael and Eliza Healy had planned to relocate with their youngest children to a northern state that prohibited slavery.
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principle in slave law, children inherited the legal status of their mothers; therefore, the Healy children were born into slavery. Michael was unable to directly free his wife and children as
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Some three decades after the last of the Healy children died, Jesuit sociologist Albert S. Foley published a book in 1954 that detailed their biracial background.
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and at the House of the Angel Guardian for homeless boys. This was followed by appointments as personal secretary to Bishop Fitzpatrick (December 1854) and
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The Archdiocese of Boston, Office for Black Catholics, has designated the Bishop James Augustine Healy Award to honor dedicated black parishioners.
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Healy's papers are held by the College of the Holy Cross, the archives of the Archdiocese of Boston and the archives of the Diocese of Portland.
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enslaved woman named Mary Eliza (c. 1813–1850), whom Michael had purchased for $ 3,700 along with her family. He took Mary Eliza as his
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to tax Catholic churches. As both rector of the cathedral and pastor of St. James, Healy was succeeded by his brother Sherwood.
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in Portland, Maine. As such, he was the first Black Catholic bishop in the United States. It would be 90 years before Bishop
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in Montreal, Quebec. After three years in Canada, he went to France in 1852 to complete his theological studies at the
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Early into his tenure as bishop, Healy became involved in a controversy with one of his priests, Jean Ponsardin of
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who became a wealthy cotton planter after settling in Georgia. Healy owned more than 1,500 acres of land near the
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of the diocese (June 1855), which gave him a significant role in diocesan affairs. Healy also served as rector of
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writer Bryan Greene established through DNA evidence that the Healy siblings were blood relatives of abolitionist
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In his will, Michael Healy referred to his wife as "my trusty woman, Eliza, mother of my...children." Due to the
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should have desired never to show my face in Boston." He was appointed an assistant at St. John's Parish in the
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mentioned that James' brother Sherwood Healy "has African blood and it shews distinctly in his exterior."
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At the time of Healy's appointment, the Diocese of Portland encompassed the entire states of Maine and
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enslaved woman. He was later freed, educated overseas, and ordained a priest in 1854. He served as
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any Catholic who joined its ranks. However, Healy withdrew his prohibition after Leo XIII issued
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Bishop Healy: Beloved Outcaste: The Story of a Great Priest Whose Life has Become a Legend
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to serve as a Catholic priest or bishop. With his predominantly European ancestry, Healy
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African-American Heroes & Heroines: 150 True Stories of African-American Heroism
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to care for children who had been left fatherless or totally orphaned by the war.
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God's Men of Color: The Colored Catholic Priests of the United States, 1854-1954
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Commission for the Catholic Missions among the Colored People and the Indians
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James Healy died in Portland on August 5, 1900, at age 70. He is buried at
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became the first publicly recognized individual to hold that distinction.
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
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and the first African American to command a ship of the U.S. government
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Henry Louis Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, "James Augustine Healy"
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Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
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Following his graduation from Holy Cross, Healy decided to enter the
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Healy was one of the Catholic Church's most vocal opponents of the
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On February 12, 1875, Healy was appointed the second bishop of the
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from November to December 1884, and was appointed to serve on the
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Alexander Sherwood Healy (1836–1875), a priest and rector of the
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Due to their largely European ancestry, the Healy children were
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James was the eldest of their ten children. His siblings were:
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and was the only Catholic bishop in America who threatened to
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As enslaved people under Georgia law, the Healy children were
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19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States
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when it was split from the Diocese of Portland in 1885.
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of the first graduating class at Holy Cross in 1849.
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Amanda Josephine Healy (1845–1879), a member of the
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Index

The Right Reverend
Bishop of Portland

Catholic Church
Diocese of Portland
David William Bacon
William Henry O'Connell
Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour
John Joseph Williams
Jones County
Georgia
Portland
Maine
College of the Holy Cross
Saint-Sulpice Seminary
Sulpican Seminary
James Augustine Healy's signature
Catholic Church
African American
passed
Healy family
Georgia
White
mixed-race
Bishop of Portland in Maine
Healy family
Jones County
Georgia
County Roscommon
Ireland

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