The Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate (founded as the Sisters of the Holy Ghost) are a

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based in

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. They are the oldest order of sisters in the state, established in 1893 in

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Margaret Mary Healy Murphy Margaret Mary Jane Healy Murphy, SHSp (May 4, 1833 - August 25, 1907) was an Irish-American Catholic religious sister and early civil rights activist. She known for founding the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate, the first order of ...

, who created the group in order to help with her mission of educating

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in San Antonio. The order created the first free, private school for the Black community in that city.

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"Sisters"
a 2018 radio interview from

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'' program in which sisters Jo and Gabrielle Murray from an Irish family, who travelled to the United States during the 1950s to join the order, are interviewed about their experiences and decision to enter religious life Catholic female orders and societies African-American Roman Catholicism {{RC-society-stub