Haitian-born Mother Mary Lange, who began the first U.S. community of Black nuns and started a school in Baltimore before the Emancipation Proclamation

Jet, March 21, 2005 by Simeon Booker

Haitian-born Mother Mary Lange, who began the first U.S. community of Black nuns and started a school in Baltimore before the Emancipation Proclamation, is being considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church in Rome.

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