{"id":62794,"date":"2022-01-18T02:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62794"},"modified":"2022-01-18T02:33:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:33:17","slug":"black-americans-on-the-way-to-sainthood-henriette-delille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62794","title":{"rendered":"Black Americans on the Way to Sainthood: Henriette Delille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcharlesbklyn.org\/2021\/02\/black-americans-on-the-way-to-sainthood-henriette-delille\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Black Americans on the Way to Sainthood: Henriette Delille<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcharlesbklyn.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Charles Borromeo Church<\/a><br \/>\nBrooklyn, New York<br \/>\n2021-02-13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josephine Dongbang<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcharlesbklyn.org\/2021\/02\/black-americans-on-the-way-to-sainthood-henriette-delille\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 67%; display: block; border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stcharlesbklyn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Henriette-Delille.jpg?w=418&amp;ssl=1\"><\/a><figcaption style=\"width: 67%; font-size: x-small; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henriette_DeLille\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henriette Delille<\/a>, (1812-1862), founder of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary<br \/>\n\u201cFor the love of Jesus Christ, she had become the humble and devout servant of the slaves.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henriette_DeLille\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henriette Delille<\/a> was born in 1812 in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Orleans, Louisiana<\/a>, to a loving Catholic family. While Henriette was born a free woman, she was descended from an enslaved African woman and white slave owner. Thus, following the tradition of the females in her family, she was groomed to form a monogamous relationship with wealthy white men under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>pla\u00e7age<\/em><\/a> system. She was trained in French literature, music, and dance, and expected to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">balls to meet men who would enter into such civil unions<\/a>. Most of these agreements often ended up with the men later marrying white women in \u201cofficial\u201d marriages and\/or abandoning their promises of support for the women and their mixed-race children. As a devout Catholic, Henriette opposed such system, believing it went against the Catholic sacrament of marriage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcharlesbklyn.org\/2021\/02\/black-americans-on-the-way-to-sainthood-henriette-delille\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the love of Jesus Christ, she had become the humble and devout servant of the slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,369,8,820,6940,20,25],"tags":[26908,32783,1438,32784],"class_list":["post-62794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-henriette-delille","tag-josephine-dongbang","tag-new-orleans","tag-st-charles-borromeo-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62797,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62794\/revisions\/62797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}