Mother Mary Lange and Other Black Heroines of the Faith
Elizabeth Clarisse Lange entered religious life and lived to be more than 90 years old, dying in 1882.
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Elizabeth Clarisse Lange entered religious life and lived to be more than 90 years old, dying in 1882.
This friendship saved the future of a religious order doing vital work, and it can inspire us to seek holiness alongside our friends and loved ones.
ARBUTUS, Md. (OSV News) -- The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world's first sustained women's religious community for Black women, has taken a step forward. Sister Rita Michelle Proctor, superior general of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, said her religious community received a Feb. 27 email from the Vatican informing the sisters that it has approved the 'positio' -- the documentation on the life of Mother Lange, which includes both the theological a
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