Only being thirteen years old in 1806 she was sold into slavery. She was bought by Zephaniah Kingsley and brought back to his 3000-acre plantation near the St. johns river. Not long after,…
Religious leader Barbara Clementine Harris was born on June 12, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris as a child regularly attended church with her parents, Walter and Beatrice Harris at the Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church. She then developed a strong bond with the church and its vision. After college, Harris was hired by Joseph Baker Associates, Inc., a personal relations firm. In 1958, she become the president of the company. Then in 1968 she was hired as the director of the Community Relations Department of the Sun Oil Company (Harris, Barbara C., http://www.blackpast.org/aah/harris-barbara-c-1930).…
As a little girl, Katherine’s family and herself would go help the poor by bringing food, water, and clothing. When her father passed away Katherine’s sister and herself used some of the money they inherited from their father and donated it to the St. Francis Mission of South Dakota’s Rosebud Reservation. One very important act she did was dedicating herself to working for the American Indians and the African Americans in the Western United States. St. Katharine Drexel opened many schools as well. She became a sister for the Sisters of…
Due to her life and doings of Christian Service, Saint Mary of the cross Mackillop is a perfect nominee for the Good Christian awards. Mackillop was born from a Scottish background on the 15th of January, 1842 in what is now the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria. Mackillop was the founder of the sisters of St Joseph of the sacred heart. On the 17th of October 2010, Mary Mackillop was said to be Australia’s first saint, and is now an influence on Men and Women across Australia. Throughout her life Mary overcame poverty and ill health in her family, and had a growing passion for helping people in need. She died on the eighth of September 1909, at the age of 67. Mackillop was a good Christian as she showed compassion for anyone in need, especially those who were less fortunate or needed education. Mackillop has had an impact on my life and a large portion of my school, because of the way she always put other people before herself, and the way she stayed faithful to God her whole life. Mackillop has many works and writings which were significant to her life and teachings.…
*First father of the missions beginning in 1769 up until 1784. He was responsible for opening 9 missions. Between 1769 and 1790 over 5000 natives converted to Catholicism.…
Born in Arkansas in the year of 1915, Rosetta was an African-American and was raised by her evangelical mother, Katie Bell Nubin, who was incredibly passionate about the church. In fact, the passion was so great that Katie would go outside, play any instrument that she had on hand and sing to spread the Word of God and try her best to convert others to her faith.…
She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902 later teaching at a school for deaf people. That same year they got engaged and were married by October. They had two sons’ names, John born in 1906 and Calvin born in 1908. At that time in history…
Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10th in 1875, to Samuel and Patsy McLeod, in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the 15th child out of her parents’ 17, and was the first one born a free slave. Mary was also the first child within her family to be able to attend school. She first attended Presbyterian Mission School, in Mayesville, South Carolina from 1882 to 1886. About a year later in 1887, she went to Scotia Seminary, and moved on to attend Moody Bible Institute from 1894 to 1895.…
As though Mary McLeod Bethune was born the fifteenth of seventeen children, she was the only child in her family to go to school at a missionary school for African-American children. In an article on gwu.edu (George Washington University) it states that after…
November, 18, 1945 her age is (66) she was born in Tahlequah Oklahoma what she is known for…
* Born in Kansa City, Missouri, in 1897 and is the 5th child of the family of 8th children but spent her formative years in virginia.…
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (ca. 1600 – 29 September 1637), also known as Laurentius Ruiz de Manila or San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, is the firstFilipino saint venerated in the Roman Catholic Church; he is thus the protomartyr of the Philippines. He was killed for refusing to leave Japan and renounce his Roman Catholic beliefs during the persecution of Japanese Christians under the Tokugawa Shogunate in the 17th century.…
If I were to tell you that I am Catholic, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps you think of rosaries, Latin Masses and gothic style cathedrals.…
1. Candida Maria de Jesus - Name of St. Candida when she became a foundress…
The Catholic Church under the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII instructed the Archbishop of Manila Bernardino…