The Mississippi Boys or The Scot Boys I Call Them “Sirs”: Angels Do Speak!®

Scot Boys or The Mississippi Boys Angels Do Speak!® & A Black-American Experience!®

At 10:40 a.m. on 11/17/2012 I heard the sound of “The Mississippi Boys”, they stated, “You have to tell her something because she doesn’t listen.” The Mississippi Boys or The Scot Boys were refering to me.

They have been speaking to me my entire life. I thank God for that. Read about them

A Black-American Experience!®: “The Mississippi Boys” I Call Them “Sirs”!

on A Black-American Experience!® and  poem “Building Roots” on Tres Mali Scott’s Poetry & Short Stories.

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A Nigerian Priest Father Patrick Adah Visits St. Jerome Church

The week of July 7, 2012, Father Patrick Adah from Nigeria visited St. Jerome Church in Westchester, California USA. Tres Mali

Black Catholic History Month November USA

 

From: Angels Do Speak!

Saint Martin de Porres is the First Black-American Saint Canonized by Pope John XXIII May 16, 1962.

Black Catholic Facts and the National Black Congress have more information about Black Catholic History Month. Some Black Catholics include:

• Martin de Porres
• Benedict the Moor
• Augustine
• Monica
• Charles Lwanga
• Elizabeth of Portugal
• Moses the Black
• Martyrs of Uganda

 

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Black-American History Month: Feburary

Happy Black History month from the United States of America. To see Black Saints Search this Blog:

• Black Catholic History Month

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Martin de Porres (1579-1639), Saint: Black Catholic History Month (November) USA on Angels Do Speak!®

St. Martin de Porres on Angels Do Speak!®

From the tapestry on the walls of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Downtown Los Angeles, California. The tapestry reflects the diversity of the Catholic Church and Faith.

St. Martin de Porres’ Feast Day is November 3, he was canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962. He was born in Lima, Peru to a freed Panamanian Slave named Anna is the illegitimate of a Spanish Knight John de Porres.

St. Martin de Porres is the friend of St. Rose of Lima and became a Dominican lay brother in Lima. He is considered a Dominican mystic becase of his mystical gifts including bilocationa and aerial flights.

Source:

Bunson, Matthew, Bunson, Margaret, Bunson, Stephen (1998). Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of SAINTS. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Divisiion.

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Unnamed Male Youth with Frances X. Cabrini: Black Catholic History Month

From the tapestry on the walls of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Downtown, Los Angeles. The tapestry reflects the diversity of the Catholic Church and the Faith.

The tapestry shows two adolesent males with St. Frances X. Cabrini (d. 1917). St. Frances Xavier Cabrini operated a House of Providence Orphanage at Codogno. She and seven followers founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart (this place was devoted to teaching young girls).

Mother Cabrini moved to the United States of America and became a citizen in 1909. She is the first American Citizen to become a saint. Mother Cabrini founded as many as sixty religious houses and charitable organizations.

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Source:

Bunson, Matthew, Bunson, Margaret, Bunson, Stephen (1998). Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of SAINTS. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division.

Felicity (d. 165), Saint: Black Catholic History Month on Angels Do Speak!®

Sts. Perpetua & Felicitas on Angels Do Speak!®

From the tapestry on the walls of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Downtown Los Angeles, California. The tapestry reflects the diversity of the Catholic Church and Faith.

Felicity’s Feast Day is November 23, she is the companion of Perpetua and associated with the Seven Brothers. Felicity’s cult is confined to a local calendars.

Felicity is a Martyred widow of Rome. She is buried in the cemetery of Maximus on the Salarian Way. She is also named Felicitas.

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Source:

Bunson, Matthew, Bunson, Margarat, Bunson, Stephen (1998). Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of SAINTS. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division.

Benedict the Moor (Black), Saint (d. 1589): Black Catholic History Month on Angels Do Speak!®

St. Benedict the Moor on Angels Do Speak!®

Benedict the Moor, he is also called Benedict the Black’s Feast Day is April 4. He was a black slave and the Patron Saint for African-Americans. The word Moor is Italian for “Black”. Benedict the Black was born a slave in Italy and freed be became superior to a large group of recluses that was disbanded by Pope Pius IV (r. 1559-1565).

Benedict the Black was illiterate and entered the Franciscans as a lay brother. He was still named superior of the monastery, despite the illiteracy.

Benedict the Black had countless miracles and holiness and many people visited the monastery as a result.

Benedict the Black was canonized 1807.

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Source:

Bunson, Matthew, Bunson, Margaret, Bunson, Stephen (1998).  Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of SAINTS. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division.

Augustine (d. 273), Saint: Black Catholic History Month

St. Augustine

From the tapestry of the walls of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Downtown Los Angeles, California. The tapestry reflects the diversity of the Catholic Church and Faith.

Augustine’s Feast Day is September 6, he is a Spanish Martyr with Sanctian and Beata. The Three Christians of Spain fled to Gual (Modern Day France). They were arrested and martyred near Sens.

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Source: Bunson, Matthew, Bunson, Margaret, Bunson, Stephen (1998). Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of SAINTS. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division.