Father Tolton said his first mass in America at St. Boniface. He was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's, but after years of struggling with racism and anti-Catholicism, he accepted an invitation from archbishop Patrick Feehan to minister to the black Catholics in Chicago. The community welcomed their new priest and their numbers grew. He worked tirelessly, founding St. Monica's church in 1891.He passed away from heat exhaustion at the age of 43 while returning from a retreat.
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