(OSV News) Little is known about the early life of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, whom Pope Francis declared venerable June 22. However, it is possible she may become one of the United States first Black Catholic saints.
Likely of what today is Haitian ethnicity, Mother Lange born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange emigrated from Cuba shortly after the War of 1812 and made her way to Baltimore, where she ran a school for African-American children in her home. Sulpician Father James Joubert had
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) The Sisters of the Holy Family used a recent visit by Cardinal Peter Turkson to update him on the status of the sainthood cause for Mother Henriette Delille, the free woman of color who founded the congregation in New Orleans in 1842.
Mother Delille was declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 after what is now called the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints approved historical documentation that she had practiced a life of heroic virtue.
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A white marble tomb stands to the left of the altar in Denver's Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. It is the only tomb in the whole of the
Julia Greeley, a paragon of humility and charity in the 19th and early 20th centuries, was born into slavery. Now she is poised to become one of the first African American saints.