Africans on the Road to Sainthood

Saints from the Motherland

GREAT BLACK SAINTS Posted in Great Black Saints on September 11, 2012 We all know St. Martin de Porres, but what about other great black saints? Below are stories I found about seven years ago while searching for great black Catholics. I realize that you’ll see some of them as being beatified by the conciliar …

The Two “Blesseds” Congolese Community in Rome Want Pope Francis to Canonize

ROME , 06 December, 2019 / 3:26 AM (ACI Africa).- On Sunday, December 1, at the three-in-one event marking 25 years since the inauguration of the Congolese Catholic Chaplaincy in Rome, 25th anniversary of the beatification of Catechist and martyr Isidore Bakanja, and the feast of Blessed Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta, citizens of the Democratic Republic …