The Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation has advanced another step toward sainthood
FILE - The bed of Mother Mary Lange, the leader of the country's first community of Black nuns, is displayed at the St. Francis Academy in Baltimore, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. Under a decree signed by Pope Francis on Thursday, June 22, 2023, Lange was recognized for her heroic virtue, and advanced in the cause of her beatification from being considered servant of God to venerable - another step toward sainthood.
In 1829, she founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence -- the country's first African American religious congregation. They were trailblazers forwho persevered despite being overlooked or suppressed by those who resented or disrespected them. Pope Francis's advancement of Lange's sainthood cause"is a monumental step forward in the long fight for Black Catholic saints in the United States and for recognition for the nation's long embattled African American Catholic community, especially nuns," said Shannen Dee Williams, a history professor at the University of Dayton and author of"Currently there are no recognized African American saints.
Williams said that unlike most of their counterparts in religious life, Lange and the Oblate Sisters of Providence were not segregationists, and never barred anyone from their ranks or institutions based on color or race. Instead, Williams said, Lange’s multiethnic and multilingual order preserved the vocations of hundreds of Black Catholic women and girls denied admission into white congregations in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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