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Mother Lange taught Black girls in slaveholding state

07/05/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By OSV News Little is known about the early life of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, whom Pope Francis declared “venerable” June 22. However, it is possible she may become one of the United States’ first Black Catholic saints. Likely of what today is Haitian ethnicity, Mother Lange — born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange — emigrated from […]

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