Celebrating Black Heritage Month
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February 10, 2023Our Lady of Perpetual Help Redemptorist Church and Cristo Rey High School in Kansas City hosted Valimar Jansen on February 2 in honor of Black Heritage Month.
This follows the celebrations of Hispanic Heritage Month last October, and Catholic Schools Week last week.
A well-known African American evangelist/ singer, Ms. Jansen had the student body and faculty step’n, clap’n and sway’n to the gospel hymns she used to accent the stories of six African American Catholics on the way to sainthood: Servants of God Julia Greeley, Thea Bowman, Mother Mary Lange and Venerables Pierre Tousaint, Henriet Delille and Augustus Tolton.
