Mother Venerable Henriette Diaz DeLille was a free woman of color who founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1842 New Orleans. The group was founded for the purpose of nursing the sick, caring for those enslaved, oprhaned, forgotten and despised. Mother Venerable Henriette Diaz DeLille two of the four phases needed for sainthood. She awaits to be proclaimed blessed. She will become the first U.S. native born African American saint when canonized.
