Mother Mary Lange O.S.P. - Archdiocese of Baltimore

5 Things to Know about the cause for sainthood of Baltimore’s Mother Mary Lange

Born in Cuba, the French-speaking Elizabeth Clarisse Lange arrived in Baltimore in the early 1800s. Many French-speaking refugees from Haiti were settling in Baltimore at the same time.
Mother Mary Lange founded St. Frances Academy in Baltimore in 1828. It was the nation’s first Catholic school for African Americans and still operates today.
Mother Lange founded the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1829, the nation’s first women’s religious community for those of African ancestry.