![]() ![]() In 1829, she founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence - the country’s first African American religious congregation. Recognizing a need to provide education for Black children in the city, she started a school in 1828, decades before the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. ![]() After encountering more discrimination in the southern U.S., she moved with her family to Baltimore. due to racial discrimination, according to the Vatican’s saint-making office. ![]() Lange grew up in a wealthy family of African origin, but she left Cuba in the early 1800s for the U.S. Under a decree signed by Pope Francis on Thursday, Lange was recognized for her heroic virtue, and advanced in the cause of her beatification from being considered a servant of God to a “venerable servant.” The Catholic Church must now approve a miracle that is attributed to her, so she can be beatified. Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange - a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 - has advanced another step toward sainthood. ![]()
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