Washington, D.C. Saint Augustine Catholic School was founded in 1858 by free men of color and emancipated slaves in Washington, D.C., during a time when this community was worshipping at St. Martin’s Chapel, in the basement of St. Matthew’s Church, which later became St. Matthew’s…
Day: March 15, 2021
The irrepressible ‘why’
Readers who attended schools where history was taught may remember learning about the so-called ‘dark ages’, the saeculum obscurum, those centuries between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance. In what was then a still embryonic Europe civil order had…