Mary Jane Wilson DamTE (3 October 1840 – 18 October 1916), also known as Sister Maria of Saint Francis (Portuguese: Irmã Maria de São Francisco), was an Englishwoman born in India who founded the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Victories.

In 1884 she co-founded, with Amélia Amaro de Sá, the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Victories [pt][3] (FNSV, in Portuguese: Congregação das Irmãs Franciscanas de Nossa Senhora das Vitórias).

In 1907 she nursed patients throughout a smallpox epidemic, and was awarded the honour of Tower and Sword (Torre e Espada).

[4] A small museum in Funchal is dedicated to her life and work,[5] and there is a sculpture of her, by Luís Paixão, in the municipal gardens in Santa Cruz.

[6] Furthermore, in Largo Severiano Ferraz, also in Funchal, there is a bronze statue of her likeness, sculpted in 2006 by Ricardo Velosa.