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November 20 , 2006 • VOL. 44, NO. 20 • Oakland, CA
Friends of Father Augustine Tolton
Bishop Murry (left) gives Communion to Markton Ross, the first seminarian for the Oakland Diocese to be supported by the Friends of Father Augustine Tolton, a group that works to increase vocations among black Catholics. Father Tolton was the first full-blooded African American Catholic priest.
Bishop George V. Murry, S.J., (right) of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, presides at a Mass for the supporters of African American vocations at Piedmont’s Corpus Christi Church, Nov. 3. Also pictured: Bishop Allen Vigneron (second right) and Father Thomas Edwards (far left).
