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The Healy family were an Irish- and African-American family notable for the high achievements of its first generation of children, who were born into slavery in Georgia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Among them were James, America's first known Black Catholic priest (and bishop); Patrick, the first Black Jesuit, PhD, and university president; Michael, the first African-American to command a federal ship; and Eliza, one of the first Black Catholic Mother Superiors.