The Archdiocese of Denver celebrated the anniversary of the death of Julia Greeley earlier this week.

Greeley's cause for canonization to the sainthood was opened in 2016 by the Archdiocese of Denver, the Black and Indian Mission Office reported. At that time, her body was exhumed and moved to the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.

"Today we commemorate the 104th anniversary of the death of Denver's own Servant of God Julia Greeley," the archdiocese said on Facebook. "May her example continue to inspire and may she pray for us to God!"

Also known as Denver's Angel of Charity, Greeley was born into slavery between the years 1833-1848 in Missouri, the Julia Greeley Guild reported. When she was young, one of her eyes was permanently ruined by a slave owner's whip as he was beating her mother. Greeley was freed in 1865 by Missouri's Emancipation Act, and she began to work as a servant for white families in Colorado, New Mexico, Missouri and Wyoming.

Greeley joined the Catholic Church in Denver in 1880 and quickly became a model of charity, FaithND reported. Despite her own poverty, she devotedly served the poor in her community, finding food, baby carriages and other supplies for families in need. She died in Denver on June 7, 1918.