This 2005 photo shows the bed of Mother Mary Lange, the leader of the country’s first community of Black nuns, on display at the St. Francis Academy in Baltimore.

and cleaning at St. Mary’s Seminary. The Oblate Sisters of Providence was founded two centuries ago as a religious community for women of African descent. Their founder, Mother Mary Elizabeth ...

WELL, TODAY IS THE START OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK. SAINT FRANCIS ACADEMY IN EAST BALTIMORE USED THE DAY TO HONOR ITS FOUNDER, MOTHER MARY LANGE. MOTHER LANGE FOUNDED THE SCHOOL TO TEACH AFRICAN ...

Mary, Mother of God: In Search of the Woman Who Changed ... as well the days of the early Church, and later going with St. John to the house in Ephesus. Naturally, the authors don’t have any ...

"St. Dominic was distressed ... seeking the unique perspective of his mother," he continued. The "Fatima prayer" originates from a reported 1917 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal.

And on Dec. 8, Saint Mary Mother of God — the Catholic church in Middletown — invites all to celebrate the season with an evening of “Lessons and Carols” at the church. The free and public ...

Accounts narrate that “according to St. John of Damascus, the Roman Emperor Marcian requested the body of Mary, Mother of God at the Council of Chalcedon, in 451. St. Juvenal, who was Bishop of ...

Her mother was a free person of color ... In 1867, inspired by Delille's vision for education, the sisters established St. Mary's Academy with the express purpose of teaching young African ...

Tradition holds it was made by St. Luke the Evangelist, whose written narratives became large parts of the New Testament. We go to look. Here we are in front of the icon of Mother Mary in the St ...