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Former judge and now best-selling author and renowned attorney, Charles Jerome Ware, is "Among America's Best Attorneys And Counsellors" and he is a recipient of the "Mother Mary Lange Award" for spiritual and community development.
Ware is also a multiple recipient of the nationally prestigious "Charles Hamilton Houston Award for Outstanding Litigation" [MBELDEF; Washington, D.C.].
Mother Mary Lange was born around 1784 in the country known today as Haiti. She, along with hundreds of others, fled that country in the late 18th century when a revolution occurred. By 1818, Mother Lange was educating black children in her own home in Baltimore and at her own expense. In 1828, with the help of Sulpician Father James Jouberts, SS, Mother Lange and two others started the first black Catholic school in the Catholic Church in America—St. Frances Academy. A year later, three black women, and Mother Lange pronounced vows to become the first religious order of women of African descent. Today, the Oblate Sisters of Providence number 85 sisters, 20 associates and 16 guild members.
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