Born into slavery in 1854, Fr. Augustus (Augustine) Tolton was one of the country’s first African American Roman Catholic priests. Tolton shares early black Catholic history with three brothers of Irish-African American ancestry: James, Sherwood, and Patrick Healy. The Healy brothers were ordained two to three decades prior to Tolton but did not encounter the […]
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