The Old Ursuline Convent continued as a residence for priests, including those serving nearby St. Mary’s Church. A new residence for the city’s archbishops was completed in 1925.

Photo by DANIEL ERATH -- Old Ursuline Convent, October 14, 2016 -- Barbara Turner Windhorst, the Rev. Philip Landry, Dr. Emilie Gagnet Leumas ...

NEW ORLEANS — "At long last, here they are," said Monsignor Crosby W. Kern of the 37 meticulously made glass and marble mosaics lining rooms of the Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter.

The Catholic Cultural Heritage Center’s inaugural Catholic New Orleans Student Art Competition is on view through Sept. 1 at the Old Ursuline Convent Museum, 1100 Chartres St., New Orleans.

The mansion then operated as a convent in the 1970s until the turn of the century. However, even before that, there was a tragic death. In 1933, a 23-year-old nurse who worked for the residents at ...

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2025. There are 358 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 7, 2015, masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French ...

The first convent building housing the Sisters of the Order of St. Ursula was dedicated in 1893 on Fourth Street in Alton, now the site of Marquette Catholic High School. The Ursulines operated an ...