ÄPAR@ ` «TEXT ` áHardey, Mother Mary Aloysia1809╨1886religiousBorn on December 8, 1809, in Piscataway, Maryland, Mary Ann Hardey grew up there, in Baltimore, and from 1815 on a plantation in Opelousas, Louisiana. During 1822╨1824 she attended the school conducted by the Society of the Sacred Heart (lately introduced into America by Mother Philippine Duchesne) at Grand Coteau, Louisiana, and in September 1825 she entered the novitiate there. Sent to the order╒s new convent at St. Michael╒s, Louisiana, Sister Aloysia took her first vows in March 1827 and her final vows in July 1833. By that time she had already had charge of the girls╒ school at St. Michael╒s for a time, and in 1836, at the age of twenty-six, she was named superior of St. Michael╒s. In 1841 she was directed by the secretary general of the Society of the Sacred Heart to establish the order╒s first convent in the East, and in the fall of that year it opened in New York City. The next year, after a trip to France during which she met Mother (later Saint) Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the order, she became superior of the New York convent. In 1844 she was appointed mother provincial for eastern North America, which then included schools in Pennsylvania and Quebec. (Her title was changed to superior vicar in 1851.) In addition to the New York convent school, which in 1847 moved to Manhattanville, New York, (it later became the College of the Sacred Heart and later still Manhattanville College) and became a highly successful educational institution, she established over the course of 27 years 16 houses for the order from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Havana, Cuba, and as far west as Detroit. (The house in Cincinnati was built in 1869 with help from Sarah Peter.) During the Civil War she had additional responsibility for houses in the West cut off from their provincial superior at Grand Coteau. In 1864 she transferred her headquarters from Manhattanville to Kenwood, near Albany. In 1871 she was named assistant general of the Society of the Sacred Heart with responsibility for the houses in the British Empire and North America. She made an arduous farewell tour of the North American houses from Canada to Cuba to Kansas and in 1872 arrived at the mother house in Paris. Her last visit to the United States was in 1882╨1884. She died in Paris on June 17, 1886. In 1905 her remains were brought to the United States and reinterred in the convent in Kenwood, New York. «styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ & 5¬ 1 !I 5¬ !I ┼ !I ▐ ╨ !I link ` HYPR ┼ ╨
