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Vote Moves Forward for First African-American Saint, Father Augustus Tolton
Father Tolton studied in Rome as no U.S. seminary would take him due to his race. A nine member Vatican theological commission going by the name…
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First Black Catholic Priest On Path To Sainthood
Augustus Tolton Went From Slave To Priest Augustus Tolton’s position in the Roman Catholic Church was anything but typical, and it appears as though the priest’s…
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First African-American Catholic Priest in the U.S. Could Be Canonized
Archdiocese of Chicago pushes for beatification of first U.S. African-American priest. Augustus Tolton was born a slave. He was born in Missouri, in the year 1854,…