Holy Card of Servant of God Mary Lange & a Large 1 3/4" Miraculous Medal

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Laminated Holy Card of Servant of God Mary Lange Plus a Large 1 3/4" Silver Oxidized Miraculous Medal
Plus you will get a brand new, large and beautifully detailed Miraculous Medal that is 1 3/4". This large version of one of the most popular medals is even more stunning than the others. The large size of this piece brings out every detail of its beautiful design. Two sided silver oxidized, and made in Italy. Measures 1 3/4" tall by 1" wide. Die-cast in Italy for exceptional detail, you will enjoy the beauty of Our Lady's medal made by the finest craftsmen in the world. Attached jump ring is included, and it is silver oxidized - that wonderful finish that only the Italians have perfected. This medal is also known as the Medal of the Immaculate Conception, created by St. Catherine Laboure following a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This medal is believed to bring special intercessions on behalf of the Blessed Virgin Mary if worn with faith and devotion at the hour of death.
Mary Lange, O.S.P. (1784-1882), born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange, was an African-American religious sister who was the foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a religious congregation established to allow African-American women to enter religious life in the Catholic Church. The cause for her beatification has been opened and thus she is honored as a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.
She was born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange in Santiago de Cuba, in a Haitian community, in about 1784. There she received an excellent education. She left Cuba in the early years of the 1800s and immigrated to the United States. Oblate oral tradition said she arrived first in Charleston, South Carolina, then traveled to Norfolk, Virginia, and finally settled in Baltimore, Maryland, by 1813. Baltimore's free African-American population had already outnumbered the city's slave population and there was also a fair-sized French speaking African Caribbean population who had early fled the revolution in Haiti.
In Baltimore, Lange met a Sulpician priest James Nicholas Joubert, S.S., who was a native of France and a former soldier. Joubert had also fled the rebellion in Haiti. He was in charge of teaching catechism to the African American children who attended the Lower Chapel at Saint Mary's Seminary. He found they could not read very well and thought it would be a good idea to start a school for girls. After getting permission from the Archbishop he began looking for two women of color to serve as teachers. A friend suggested Elizabeth Lange and Marie Balas since they were already operating a school in their home. He then decided it a good idea to start a women religious order at the same time, to teach the children, and asked the women if they would do so. They shared with him that they felt called to consecrate their lives to God and had been waiting for Him to show them a way to serve Him. Joubert agreed to support them and persuaded Archbishop James Whitfield to approve the new community. Thus the Oblate Sisters of Providence were founded by Lange and Joubert as the first religious congregation of women of African descent in the United States. The Oblate Sisters of Providence were established with the primary purpose of the Catholic education of girls.
After her death, Lange began being venerated as a saint by the Catholic population of Baltimore. In 1991, with the approval of the Holy See, Cardinal William Henry Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore, officially opened a formal investigation of Lange's life to study it for her possible canonization. As part of this process, her remains were exhumed and examined. They were then moved to the chapel of Our Lady of Mount Providence Convent, the motherhouse of the congregation. In 2004, documents describing Lange's life were sent to the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints which then opened the cause for her sainthood.