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Not forever, though. The Vatican is considering five candidates for sainthood: Father Augustus Tolton, of Chicago, a former slave and America’s first Black priest. Pierre Toussaint, of New York, a slave who became a New York barber known as “saintly Pierre” and who founded Catholic Charities. Julia Greeley, of Colorado, who as a child lost her right eye from the snap of a slave whip in Missouri, and who became known in her lifetime as the “Angel of Charity.” Henriette Delille, of New Orleans, a mixed race Creole who founded an order of Black nuns to care for the sick and dying in that impoverished city of the 19th century.

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