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Friday 12 March 2010

Fr Tolton's Cause for Sainthood Opened

The cause for the canonization of Fr Augustine Tolton, the first black priest in the United States has been opened.

I have never understood why a major motion picture hasn't been made of his life -- born into slavery, escaped with his mother while a child, ordained at the Vatican... really, why not?


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