About
Gro Mambo:
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Visionary. Motivator. Ethnologist. Religious leader.
Choreographer. Dancer. Playwright. Teacher.Master
Psychic, Mother, Founder, Director, and High Priestess
of LePeristyle Haitian Sanctuary. Founder and Chairperson
of the National African Religion Congress.
As a Voodoo priestess, Gro Mambo has blazed a trail
that has helped her garner a national and international
reputation. She founded Le Peristyle Haitian Sanctuary
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1982, and later
incorporated Le Peristyle as a 501(c)(3) church, making
her church the first church of Voodoo, or Humofor,
to achieve 501(c)(3) status. She also directs her
Humofor in Mariani, Haiti, Le Peristyle Sanctuary,
which belonged to her late godfather Papa Hilaire
Michel. She also erected the first Voodoo Sanctuary
in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where government officials hung
marquees over the shrines declaring them the first
shrines in the country since slavery.
Continuing her legacy, she held the first public Voodoo
ceremonies in the United States. She hosted two ceremonies
at the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum,
and in Congo Square in New Orleans, Louisiana, where
she held the first Haitian Voodoo ceremony since the
times of Marie Laveau. In recognition of her work,
the City of New Orleans proclaimed Gro Mambo an honorary
citizen and the dates of those ceremonies as holidays.
To this day, June 6, 1998 stands as New Orleans Festival
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