Mary Lange, O.S.P. (1784-1882), born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange, was an African-American religious sister who was the foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a religious congregation established to allow African-American women to enter religious life in the Catholic Church. The cause for her beatification has been opened and thus she is honored as a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.
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Elizabeth Clarisse Lange January 1794 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
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3 February 1882 (aged 88) Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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