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Two centuries ago, Mary Elizabeth Lange emigrated to the United States from Cuba and joined a friend to offer free education to Baltimore’s Black children. With the support of Baltimore Archbishop James Whitfield, she founded a school for “girls of color” and then the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a religious community for women of African descent.
The Oblate Sisters came into existence more than three decades before the Civil War and its resulting abolition of slavery within the United States. Although Maryland supported the Union, it was a slave state when Lange arrived. EWTN News correspondent Mark Irons noted that she “established St. Frances Academy [in Baltimore] because she believed African American children had the right to an education.
Raised Catholic and today a history professor, Williams said that many people are “unaware of the existence of Black nuns in our Church.” He eventually discovered African men could be ordained to the priesthood and joined the Josephite Fathers, a community founded in 1871 to serve the nation’s Black Catholics, and is pastor of one of the nation’s oldest predominantly Black Catholic parishes in the U.S. “It’s a loving community. We welcome everybody,” he explained.
Sister Constance Fenwick of the Oblate Sisters remarked, “They had to accept us because we weren’t going to take any less.”
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