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Joubert told them about his plans for a school for girls of African descent, and they offered to join his project. Joubert proposed that they form a religious institute in addition to conducting a school. The school, St. Frances Academy, was founded in 1828. [4] With the approval of James Whitfield, Archbishop of Baltimore, a novitiate was ...
Mary Elizabeth Lange, OSP (born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange; c. 1789 – February 3, 1882) was an American religious sister in Baltimore, Maryland who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1829, the first African-American religious congregation in the United States.
In 1828, one of the parish priests, Fr James Joubert, teamed with Servant of God Mother Lange to found the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first all-Black order of Catholic nuns, and started the all-girls' St Frances Academy, the first and oldest Black Catholic school in the United States. When the Oblates moved to a new location in 1836, the ...
Arriving in Memphis, Henderson's connections with the Church started in the first ten years after the American Civil War. [4] A recently freed slave, he served as a minister to a tiny Baptist congregation located next to St. Peter's Catholic Church at that time.
In 1850 the order founded a school for girls. The sisters also provided a home for orphans and taught enslaved persons, although Louisiana law then prohibited educating slaves. The three women took private vows on November 21, 1852, as Bishop Antoine Blanc would not allow women of color to make public vows.
According to Bowers, when she refused, a staff member tried to pull her out of her bed. She resisted, she said, prompting the staffer to choke her. “I was trying to tell her, ‘I can’t resist, you’ve got my arms, you’ve got my throat,’” Bowers recalled. She said once the staff member released her, she started throwing up.
Bower has been involved in educational reform efforts since he was President of the Teen League of Rochester (NY) as a high school student from 1970 - 1971. While at Caltech, he founded and co-directed with his Caltech colleague Jerry Pine Project SEED and then the Caltech Precollege Science Initiative (CAPSI). [ 10 ]
The school was first taught by the laity, until five Sisters of St. Francis arrived from Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania in October 1902 to take over. The church building was completed in 1908 and dedicated as Most Pure Heart of Mary in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary .