The Oblate Sisters of Providence was the first Catholic religious order for African American women. Founded in Baltimore in 1829, it began its ministry among black Catholics who fled Haiti for the United States in the first decades of the nineteenth...

Oblate Sisters of Providence - a Roman Catholic monastic order, founded by Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, OSP, and Rev. James Nicholas Joubert, SS in 1829 for the education of coloured children. It has the distinction of being the first Roman Catholic...