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  2. Mary Elizabeth Lange - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Oblate Sisters of Providence - Wikipedia

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    It was the first permanent community of Black Catholic sisters in the United States. The Oblate Sisters were free women of color who served to provide Baltimore's African-American population with education and "a corps of teachers from its own ranks." [1] The congregation is a member of the Women of Providence in Collaboration.

  4. Oblates of Jesus the Priest - Wikipedia

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    The Oblate sisters are also very musical, emphasizing singing and playing instruments during their liturgies and sometimes writing their own music. [1] The prayer life of the order is especially Eucharistic with at least a half hour of Eucharistic adoration every day for each sister, as well as daily Mass, Liturgy of the Hours, and Rosary. As ...

  5. Oblate - Wikipedia

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    that between the oblate who was "mortuus mundo" ("dead to the world," that is, who had given himself and his goods to religion without reservation), and the oblate who retained some control over his person and his possessions – the former only (plene oblatus) was accounted a persona ecclesiastica, with enjoyment of ecclesiastical privileges ...

  6. Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Wikipedia

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    The bishop declined, so Gillet invited three women to form a new religious congregation. It would become known as the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The co-foundress and first religious superior of the Monroe community was Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin, one of the first members of Oblate Sisters of Providence of

  7. Milwaukee event honors six Black American Catholics up for ...

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    Mother Mary Lange (1784-1882): Founder and first superior of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. Henriette DeLille (1812-1862): Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family order in New Orleans in 1842.

  8. Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles - Wikipedia

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    They were founded by Sr Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster OSB, an African-American nun formerly part of the Oblate Sisters of Providence (founded by Mother Mary Lange in 1829 as the first-ever Black religious order in America). Wilhelmina had found her traditional tastes incompatible with the Oblates' changing ethos, and decided to start her own community.

  9. Oblates of St. Francis de Sales - Wikipedia

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    Louis Brisson. An order of cloistered nuns, the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, was founded by Francis de Sales at the request of Jane Frances de Chantal in 1610. The establishment of an Oratory at Thonon, where Francis served as the first Provost, was a preparatory step toward carrying out his design, the accomplishment of which was prevented by his death.