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Clotilde (c. 474 - 545) was a Burgundian princess who married Clovis I, the first king of the Franks, and influenced him to convert to Catholicism. She led a devout life, built churches, and became a patron saint of several causes.
Clotilda was a schooner that illegally brought 110 Africans to Mobile, Alabama in 1860, despite the ban on slave trade. The ship was scuttled and the survivors founded Africatown, a historic community that still has descendants of the captives.
May 22, 2019 · A cast iron bust of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the slave ship Clotilde, can be found in front of the historic Union Missionary Baptist Church in Africatown.
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Learn about the life and legacy of Saint Clotilde, the wife of King Clovis I of the Franks, who brought Catholicism to his people. Discover how she influenced the history and culture of France and became a saint in both Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Saint Clotilda ; feast day June 3) was the queen consort of Clovis I, king of the Franks, in whose momentous conversion to Christianity she played a notable part. Clotilda was the granddaughter of Gundioc, king of Burgundy, who was related to the Visigothic kings and shared their Arian Christian.
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May 19, 2022 · The Clotilda was the only vessel to illegally bring enslaved people from Africa to the US in 1860. Archaeological divers are studying the sunken ship in Alabama's Mobile River to find clues of its history and DNA.
And in May, after a year of research, scholars reached a confident conclusion: the Clotilda had been positively identified. Divers recovered two wood sample fragments, including this one, in December 2018 to supplement the previous samples.
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