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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. Ursula Benincasa - Wikipedia

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    Ursula Benincasa, (Italian: Orsola Benincasa), born around 1550 and died in Naples on 20 October 1618, was an Italian nun and mystic, declared venerable, founder of the Oblate Sisters and Hermitage of the Contemplative Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, later the Theatine Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.

  5. 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 ...

  6. African and African-American women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The free school that she created eventually transformed into a Catholic religious institution to educate young black women. This led to the first association of black nuns in the United States called the "Oblate Sisters of Providence". This association still exists to this day as has been helping do humanitarian work since Mother Mary Lange's ...

  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. Antonia de Oviedo Schöntal - Wikipedia

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    Antonia Maria de Oviedo Schöntal (16 March 1822 – 28 February 1898) was a Swiss-Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder of the Oblate Sisters of the Most Holy Redeemer, an order that she established with the Benedictine Bishop José María Serra.