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  1. John Augustus Tolton (baptized Augustine; April 1, 1854 – July 9, 1897) was an African American who served as first openly Black Catholic priest in the United States, ordained in Rome in 1886. He was preceded by the Healy brothers, Catholic priests who passed as White.

  2. Father Augustus Tolton 18541897. Saints arise from the exigencies of the eras within which they live. Saints are of human stock but have the genius to step forward and bring the gospel message to the contradictions of their time.

  3. Fr. Augustus Tolton became the first Black American priest in the United States of America! Born as a slave in America, he became an American hero! For a brief moment in history, racial differences that only ran skin deep were forgotten because of this great man of God.

  4. Augustus Tolton (born April 1, 1854, Brush Creek, Ralls county, Missouri, U.S.—died July 9, 1897, Chicago, Illinois) was an American religious leader who is regarded as the first African American ordained as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church (see Researcher’s Note). Tolton was born into slavery.

  5. Fr. Tolton’s Life and Times. 1849: Martha Jane Chisley, (Father Tolton’s mother), moves to Missouri from Kentucky as a young slave. This same year, Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery, returns to the South and becomes one of the main conductors on the Underground Railroad.

  6. 15 de feb. de 2019 · The Saintly Life of Father Augustus Tolton. Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers. Augustus John Tolton, the second of three children, was born into slavery on April 1, 1854, in Brush Creek, Missouri. His baptismal record reads, in part, “A colored child. . . . Property of Stephen Eliot.”

  7. 13 de jun. de 2019 · Augustine Tolton was born into slavery in Missouri in 1854, escaped to freedom as a child during the chaos of the Civil War, and later became the first African-American priest in the Roman ...