Portland. The Archdiocese of Boston, Office for Black Catholics, has designated the Bishop James Augustine Healy Award to honor dedicated black parishioners. In 1975, Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan and Bishop Raymond Lessard donated a bronze plaque to be dedicated in Jones County, Georgia, commemorating Healy. The Healey Asylum in Lewiston, Maine, was named in his honor. See also Healy family Irish diaspora List of African-American firsts Miscegenation References Sources Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Bishop James Augustine Healy James Healy Further reading Foley, Albert S. Bishop Healy: Beloved Outcaste: The Story of a Great Priest Whose Life has Become a Legend (New York: Strauss and Young, 1954, available online; reprint Arno Press, 1969) Foley, Albert S. God's Men of Color: The Colored Catholic Priests of the United States, 1854-1954 (New York: Strauss and Young, 1955), available at Googlebooks Mazzocchi, J. "Healy, James Augustine", American National Biography Online, Feb. 2000 (subscription only) 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States 1830 births 1900 deaths Roman Catholic bishops of Portland American Roman Catholic clergy of Irish descent College of the Holy Cross alumni Seminary of Saint-Sulpice (France) alumni People from Jones County, Georgia People from South Boston Healy family (United States) Catholics from Massachusetts Catholics from Georgia (U.S. state) African-American Roman Catholic bishops