Laïcs En Mission
Saints of Color
Sainte Joséphine Bakhita Esclave soudanaise puis Sœur Canossienne Joséphine (Giuseppina) Bakhita naît au Soudan en 1869, dans une famille nombreuse : elle eut 4 sœurs et 3 frères. Alors qu’elle n’avait que 9 ans, elle fut enlevée par des négriers : vendue à plusieurs reprises sur les marchés africains, elle connut les atrocités d’un esclavage …
St. Luke recounts in the Acts of the Apostles that the Holy Spirit came down in tongues of fire in the Upper Room while the disciples were hiding in fear. He also alludes to the presence of Africans in the Upper Room at Pentecost in that Egyptians and Cyrenians heard the gospel in their own …
St. Monica was born around 332 in Tagaste, Roman North Africa. She was a Christian woman and wed Patricius, a pagan official in Tagaste. The marriage was arranged and her husband was many years her senior. She was a victim of her husband’s domestic violence. Her husband’s mother lived with them and frequently made St. …
St. Cyprian, was born in Carthage, North Africa. He was was a big-hearted, well-educated “man about town” when he was converted by the example and words of an old priest. He redirected his life in his mid fourties and made a vow of chastity. His mind was now focused on Scripture and the growing …
Saint Augustine of Hippo, was born in 354 in Tagaste, in Latin-speaking North Africa to St. Monica and her husband, by arrangement, Patricius who was a pagan official. He was the oldest of 3 children born to this union. His father was much older than his mother and was a perpetrator of domestic violence. St. Augustine’s …
ST. AMANT, La. – Emotion, fueled by centuries of oppression but buoyed with the idealism of hope, permeated the nearly 100-year-old walls of Holy Rosary Church in St. Amant on a steamy Saturday morning. More than 200 people gathered at Holy Rosary on Aug. 17 for “A Day of Reflection: African-Americans on the Path to …