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From left, Pierre Toussaint, Mary Elizabeth Lange, Julia Greeley and Augustus Tolton are among five African-American candidates being supported for sainthood.

From left, Pierre Toussaint, Mary Elizabeth Lange, Julia Greeley and Augustus Tolton are among five African-American candidates being supported for sainthood.

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Coalition seeks sainthood for 5 African-Americans

The founders of two religious orders and an African-American priest who had to train in Rome because no U.S. seminary would accept him are among five candidates being supported for sainthood by a new coalition of black Catholic organizations.