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Venerable , Father August us Tolton(1854-1897) was the first recognizably Roman Catholic priest of African descent in the America. His life of heroic virtue and leadership was historic, as well as unprecedented. Ordained in Rome in 1886, Tolto n, formerly enslaved, was the first black priest to identify with the African American communit y.
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