Mary Elizabeth Lange
Religious sister
Mary Elizabeth Lange, OSP 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. She was also, via the Oblates, the... Wikipedia
Born: 1789, Saint-Domingue
Died: February 3, 1882 (age 93 years), Baltimore, MD
founded: Oblate Sisters of Providence, religious congregation
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Foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. Mother Lange was born around 1789 in what is today Haiti to a well-off family. She, along with hundreds of ...
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Elizabeth Clarisse Lange (Mother Mary Lange of the Oblate Sisters of Providence) was born circa 1784 and died February 3, 1882. Mother Mary Lange founded ...
She took the name Mary at her profession of vows. Mother Lange served as the first mother superior of the order from 1829 to 1832, then again from 1835 to 1841.
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