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Saint Mary Magdalena L. Tate is recognized as the founder of the First Holiness Movement in the United States. The Church of the Living God, a member of the Holiness - Pentecostal denomination, is located in dozens of states and Jamaica, with headquarters in Nashville (since 1924).
Saint Mary Magdalena L. Tate was born January 35, 1871. During her youth, because of her character and demeanor, she was called "Miss Do Right." Mary Tate's followers were known as "The Do Rights."
Mary Magdalena L. Tate became known by many of her faithful followers as Mother Tate. This unique black woman, along with her two sons, Walter Curtis Lewis and Felix Early Lewis, in 1903 founded and established the House of God, which is "the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and the Ground of the Truth Without Controversy" (1 Timothy 3:15-16). (Cited hereafter as House of God).
