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Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange -- a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States' first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 -- has advanced another step toward sainthood.

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Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange -- a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States' first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 -- has advanced another step toward sainthood.