Ida Mary Barry Ryan

Ida Mary Barry Ryan (December 21, 1854 – October 17, 1917) was an American philanthropist. She was active in building, endowing, and assisting over 100 churches, chapels, hospitals, and various charities, to which she gave more than . December 21, 1854. Her father, Captain John Smith Barry (1829–1872), She and her husband were generous contributors to many of the charitable institutions and philanthropic work of the church, especially in Virginia. They furnished the interior of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Richmond, Virginia which had been given to the city by her husband, at a cost of . They built the Sacred Heart Church, Washington Ward, and Sacred Heart Cathedral School at Richmond; and the church and convent at Falls Church, Virginia. They contributed to churches at Hot Springs, Virginia, Harrisburg, Virginia, and Keyser, West Virginia; the chapel at Suffern, New York, where their summer home was located, and together gave Ryan Hall and a wing to Georgetown University, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Interment was at St. Andrew-on-Hudson.

Awards and honors She was decorated with the Cross of St. Gregory and made a Countess by Pope Pius X for her philanthropic work.