Episode 18: Venerable Mother Mary Lange

June 28, 2023

Mother Mary Lange was recently declared Venerable by Pope Francis. This remarkable woman founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence and Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore, Maryland. She served her community in education, caring for the sick, taking in orphans, and more.

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sources:
• Banks, Willa Young. A Contradiction in Antebellum Baltimore: A Competitive School for Girls of "Color" within a Slave State from Maryland Historical Magazine (volume 99, No. 2 – Summer 2004)
• Catholic News Agency ( https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254635/mother-mary-lange-founder-of-first-african-american-religious-congregation-declared-venerable )
• MotherLange.org ( https://www.motherlange.org/mother-lange )

news sources:
• Catholic Herald (https://catholicherald.co.uk/pope-recognises-heroic-virtues-of-sister-lucia-dos-santos-putting-fatima-visionary-a-step-closer-to-sainthood/)
• Catholic News Agency
( https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254634/breaking-pope-francis-advances-the-sainthood-cause-of-fatimas-sister-lucia )
( https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254627/400-year-old-church-emerges-from-the-waters-in-mexico )
• Hyperallergic ( https://hyperallergic.com/246445/worship-below-the-waves-a-drowned-church-surfaces/ )
• National Catholic Register ( https://www.ncregister.com/news/relic-of-st-thomas-more-faces-destruction-unless-anglican-church-opens-vault )
• OFM.org (https://ofm.org/venerabile-antonio-pagani-ofm.html)
• Origins ( https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-casas-and-500-years-racial-injustice?language_content_entity=en )
• Salesians Don Bosco ( https://www.sdb.org/en/Salesian_Holiness/Servants_of_God/Anthony_de_Almeida_Lustosa )
• Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechula)
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomé_de_las_Casas )

News writers for The Flowered Path are patrons and friends of the show, Sarah and Kevin.
Theme music is Mariam Matrem Virginem, played by a forest beggar.