YouTube creator LizziesAnswers posted a video titled “Top 20 Black & African Catholic Saints!“, which inspired this post that highlights a few of the saints that she mentions in her video.
Saint Anthony the Great – This saint had many admirers who persuaded him to found two monasteries and to give them a rule of life. These were the first monasteries ever to be founded, and Saint Anthony is, therefore, the father of cenobites of monks. When he was over ninety, he was commanded by God in a vision to search the desert for Saint Paul the Hermit. He is said to have survived until the age of a hundred and five, when he died peacefully in a cave on Mount Kolzim near the Red Sea.
Saint Augustine – After his conversion, Saint Augustine led a very productive Christian life. At Hippo, where he settled, he was consecrated bishop in 395. For thirty-five years he was the center of ecclesiastical life in Africa, and the Church’s strongest champion against heresy. His writings, which compose many volumes, have been everywhere accepted as a major source of both Christian spirituality and theological speculation. The great Doctor died, deeply regretted by the entire Christian world, in 430.
Saint Charles Lwanga and companions – Saint Charles Lwanga and his companions suffered persecution from an unjust king. Charles taught the young people of the kingdom and defended them from the king’s sexual advances. He and his 21 companions died as martyrs after not renouncing Christianity.
Saint Martin de Porres – Son of a freed African slave woman and a Spanish knight, Saint Martin was given the habit of a Coadjutor Brother and assigned to the infirmary of the Dominican Convent of the Rosary in Lima, where he would remain in service until his death at the age of sixty. Word of his miracles had made him known as a Saint to every resident of the region.
Saint Monica – The mother of Saint Augustine, was born in 332 of a Christian family of the ancient city of Tagasta in northern Africa. Augustine left his mother and rejected her faith, but he could not escape from her prayers, which encompassed him like the providence of God. She followed him to Italy; and there, by his marvelous conversion, her sorrow was turned into joy. She had devoted herself to his conversion, praying for him always and winning his reverence and love by the holiness of her life and her affectionate forbearance.
Saints Perpetua and Felicity – These two saints are commemorated in the Canon of the Mass. They lived in the North African city of Carthage, at a time when it was part of the Roman Empire; they had come under an edict issued by the emperor Severus in the year 202, declaring death to be the penalty for being a Christian. They faithfully died as martyrs.
The information about the Saints is from sanctoral.com