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St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church (Pittsburgh) / 40.4414111°N 79.9859028°W / 40.4414111; -79.9859028. St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church is a Black Catholic parish in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1894 and became a personal parish for African-Americans in June 2020. [2]
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Benedict the Moor OFM ( Italian: Benedetto il Moro; 1526 – 4 April 1589) was a Sicilian Franciscan friar. Born of enslaved Africans in San Fratello, he was freed at birth and became known for his charity. As a young man he joined a Franciscan -affiliated hermit group, of which he became the leader. In 1564 he was sent to the Franciscan friary ...
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Katharine Drexel, SBS (born Catherine Mary Drexel; November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) was an American Catholic religious sister, and educator. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious congregation serving Black and Indigenous Americans . Canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000, Drexel was the second person born in ...
Richard Henry Ackerman. Richard Henry Ackerman, C.S.Sp. (August 30, 1903 – November 18, 1992) was an American Latin Catholic prelate of the Catholic Church. A member of the Holy Ghost Fathers, he served as the bishop of the Diocese of Covington in Kentucky, U.S. from 1960 to 1978.
St. Benedict the Moor High School, Milwaukee; St. Benedict the Moor High School was established in 1935 by Fr. Philip Steffes, OFM Cap, the pastor of St. Benedict the Moor Parish, a mostly African American community. [2] It served both boarding and day high school students, many of whom came from St. Benedict the Moor Elementary School, the ...