Newsletter 12-2-20

Canonization is simply the process of recognizing people who have lived heroically virtuous lives, and elevating them so that Catholics all over the world may freely celebrate and honor them.

Mother Henriette Díaz DeLille (March 11, 1813 – November 16, 1862) was a Black Catholic nun in the United States who founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as their first Mother Superior.