Father Augustus Tolton Catholic Heroes and unfairly

and unfairly

solitude and what he called “total abjection” left him restless and unsatisfied

Due to the Great Famine

1850 - 1867

In 1933 the first edition of The Catholic Worker

Father Augustus Tolton Catholic Heroes and unfairlyFather Augustus Tolton (1854 1897)Augustus Tolton may have spent his entire life making history and enduring oppression and injustice as the first Black Catholic priest in the United States but never saw himself as the center or focus of his life. He lived for God alone and poured himself out in the service of his brothers and sisters, regardless of their color or creed. Augustus was born in 1854 to Peter Paul and Martha Tolton; both slaves in