(slideshow) Black Catholic Heroes

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Fr. Augustus Tolton

Born into slavery in Missouri, Tolton was ordained to the priesthood 1886, at the age of 32. He was ordained in Rome because he had to confront such adversity in the United States in order to become a priest. Read more here.

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