You Have a Role in Making Saints

Dear friends,

A while back we had the premiere in our diocese of a new documentary film on the life of Father Augustus Tolton, “Tolton Speaks.” I’ve written here about Father Tolton before. 

He was born in slavery in 1854 in Missouri. His mother escaped with him and his siblings and brought them to Quincy, Illinois, a free state. The Tolton family was Catholic and Mrs. Martha Tolton wanted her son to go to Catholic school. 

But not every Catholic school would welcome a black child, and it took Mrs. Tolton a few tries before she found a Catholic priest and sisters who would  welcome her son. His faith grew, and at the end of his teen years, he felt a call to the priesthood.  READ MORE.

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