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A historically African American Episcopal Church congregation in Indiana was recently honored with a historical marker a couple of years ahead of its 100th birthday.

St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church of Gary, which was founded in 1927 as a chartered Episcopal mission for the local black population, had the marker installed last month.

Paula DeBois, parish historian at St. Augustine’s Episcopal, who submitted the application for the marker, told The Christian Post on Wednesday that the church was “part of a group of candidates in a cycle that applied to the Indiana Historic Bureau.”

“They deemed that our information was enough to be included in their marker program,” she explained. “We're the first Episcopal parish in the state to receive such a designation.”

DeBois also told

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