National Catholic Register

Ven. Pierre Toussaint — Former Slave and Possible Future Saint

Pierre Toussaint’s funeral filled St. Peter’s Church on Barclay Street in Lower Manhattan that summer morning of 1853. People throughout the city — high and low, black and white, French- and ...
The Times Herald

Once a slave, now a future saint — Venerable Pierre Toussaint

During these days of racial unrest and protests in the United States it is important for all of us to know our American history and learn about those holy Black Catholics who struggled and made a ...
The Africa Report

Haiti’s ‘Black Spartacus’: Toussaint Louverture and abolishing slavery

While in exile on the island of Saint Helena, the fallen French Emperor Napoleon I said of Toussaint Louverture: “It was Josephine who made me do it. It was the greatest mistake I ever made as ...
L'Est républicain

Royaumeix. Les offices de la Toussaint programmés à la paroisse Saint Gérard

Pendant cette période de la Toussaint, la paroisse Saint Gérard honore ses saints et ses défunts. Elle propose plusieurs rendez-vous liturgiques pour célébrer cette fête : Le vendredi 31 octobre. 18 h ...