this story. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/father-augustus-tolton-sainthood.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage …pic.twitter.com/vCSB2nkdEl
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Augustine Tolton was born into slavery, escaped to freedom as a child during the Civil War, and became the first African-American priest in the Roman Catholic Church. This week, he took the first step toward becoming its first African-American saint.https://nyti.ms/2F5i6vJ
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I love his story. "Ok, no seminary in America will take him? I guess we'll just have to send him to ROME."
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