Father augustus tolton biography of barack

Father Augustus Tolton
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Saints arise from the exigencies of the eras within which they live. Saints are of human stock but have the genius to step forward and bring the gospel message to the contradictions of their time.

In the case of Augustus Tolton it is the long period of black slavery in this country and the nation’s Civil War foisting a resolution to uncompensated black servitude and the tumultuous period of Reconstruction of a nation torn to shreds over this issue.

Augustus witnessed mistreatment of his people and became a victim himself of such mistreatment.

Without a national program to assist the assimilation of freed slaves into the fabric of the country, its schools, social and educational institutions and politics were found generally off limits to blacks especially where whites were invested.

What Tolton experienced in that time of social ambivalence is stuff we read about in history books or view in certain documentaries.

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