Do your peers make fun of your race, ethnic background, religion, or grades? Do you suffer from prejudice? If so, Henrietta Delille is just the person to pray to.

Henrietta Delille was born in New Orleans in 1812, African-American, but free. In 1836, she had gathered a small group of women to help the ill and dying, and bring the uninstructed of "her people" to know the Lord.

Henrietta founded one the first African-American Catholic orders called the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1841. By 1857, Henrietta and her sisters had purchased a home where the order could live in a community and further their ministry. This home eventually grew into a school, charity hospital, and an orphan asylum.

At her death in 1862, she was known as one "who loved Jesus Christ and had made herself the humble servant of slaves."

This is a simple prayer that guided Henrietta`s life: "I believe in God. I hope in God. I love and want to die for God."