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The Oblate Sisters of Providence (OSP) is a Catholic women's religious institute founded by Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, and Father James Nicholas Joubert in 1829 in Baltimore, Maryland for the education of girls of African descent.
Mary Elizabeth Lange, OSP (born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange; c. 1789 – February 3, 1882) was an American religious sister in Baltimore, Maryland who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1829, the first African-American religious congregation in the United States.
In 1829, Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence — the country’s first African American religious congregation. The post Black nun who founded first African ...
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (I.H.M.) is a Catholic religious institute of sisters, founded in 1845 by Fr. Louis Florent Gillet, CSsR, and Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin, a co-founder of the Oblate Sister of Providence.
Mother Mary Lange (1784-1882): Founder and first superior of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. Henriette DeLille (1812-1862): Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family order in New Orleans in 1842.
They eventually succeeded and became the Oblate Sisters of Providence. Joubert wrote the community's first rule, incorporating the Sulpician ideal of following the rule and giving good example. He persuaded Whitfield to approve the order. [6]
At 19, Williams entered the Sisters of Saint Francis' convent in Louisiana. When that order disbanded in 1912, she entered the novitiate of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore where she was given the name Sister Mary Theodore. Mother Mary Theodore Williams, foundress of the Handmaids.
that between the oblate who was "mortuus mundo" ("dead to the world," that is, who had given himself and his goods to religion without reservation), and the oblate who retained some control over his person and his possessions – the former only (plene oblatus) was accounted a persona ecclesiastica, with enjoyment of ecclesiastical privileges ...