Celebrating the Life of Sr. Thea Bowman Nov 2, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Saint Louie Bertrand will celebrate the life of
Sister Thea Bowman
during Mass on
November 2 at 9:00 AM
during Black Catholic History Month

Thea Bowman was born in 1937 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Her grandfather was born a slave. Today, she is being considered for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church! She ended up being an important link between the African American community and Roman Catholicism.

She was raised as a Christian Methodist, but at the age of nine, she asked her parents’ permission to convert to Catholicism and took her first communion.

She was the first African American nun to become a sister in the order of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Music was very important to her. She helped create a new African American Catholic hymnal, selecting songs for it. She wrote an essay for the hymnal as well, entitled “The Gift of African American Sacred Song.”