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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Elizabeth, founder and first superior of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, took the name Mary. She was superior general from 1829 to 1832 and from 1835 to 1841.
Mary Elizabeth Lange (?—1883), educator and founder of both the oldest Catholic school for African Americans and the first order of African American nuns in ...