Hardey, May Aloysia (1809–1886)

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Hardey, May Aloysia (1809–1886)

American religious. Name variations: Sister Aloysia; Mother Mary Aloysia Hardey. Born Mary Ann Hardey on Dec 8, 1809, in Piscataway, Maryland; died June 17, 1886, in Paris, France; dau. of Frederick William Hardey and Sarah (Spalding) Hardey.

Took final vows with Society of the Sacred Heart as Sister Aloysia (1833); established the order's 1st convent in the East, on Houston Street in New York (1841) which later became the College of the Sacred Heart, then Manhattanville College, having moved to the outskirts of NY; served as its superior (1842–64); over the next 27 years, also established 16 other houses for the order; was made assistant general of the order (1871).

See also Mary Garvey, Mary Aloysia Hardey (1910); Margaret Williams, Second Sowing: The Life of Mary Aloysia Hardey (1942).

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