The Vatican has advanced for canonization the cause of Mother Mary Lange, an immigrant from Cuba who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence. The faith-filled woman was of African descent.
To fill this void, Lange and Maria Balas, who shared Lange's home, started a school in that home in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood.
Joubert himself realized that the Haitian refugee children he ministered to were unable to read and had heard about the school for Black children that Lange and Balas had started.educating and caring"After adding two more women, Rosine Boegue and American-born Theresa Duchemin, they began studying to become sisters and opened a Catholic school for girls in their convent at 5 St. Mary's Ct. in Baltimore," said the website for the Oblate Sisters of Providence.
At the time, Black men and women were not able to enter religious life in the United States, said the website. The formation of a religious congregation for African American women came nearly three decades before the ordination of the first priest of any African American descent, and almost six decades before the ordination of the first priest widely acknowledged to be of African American heritage.
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