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Who was Elizabeth Lange?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

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. The order pledged to educate and evangelize African Americans; yet they would always be open to meeting the needs of the times. Thus, the Oblate Sisters educated youth and provided a home for orphans. Freed slaves were educated and at times admitted into the order. They nursed the terminally ill during the cholera epidemic of 1832, sheltered the elderly, and even served as domestics at St. Mary's Seminary in time of crisis.

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