An Hour With Mother Mary Lange

Spend an hour with this compassionate woman who served the poor and abandoned in Baltimore, especially children of color.

An Hour with Mother Mary Lange tells the story of Elizabeth Clarisse Lange, a gifted yet humble woman from Cuba who settled in Baltimore in 1813. At that time, there was a large community of French-speaking Catholic from Haiti who had settled there. Elizabeth Lange quickly realized that the children in her neighborhood needed a formal education. She began educating the ch...