A front elevation of New Orleans’ first Ursuline convent, dated March 19, 1733. The convent was built on the same property occupied today by the Old Ursuline Convent on Chartres Street in the ...

But in New Orleans, the stories have some truths, even today. “If we’re talking here in New Orleans of course, I always credit the Ursuline nuns and the casket girls that were brought over ...

A new plaque on the levee in the Lower Ninth Ward honors the history of the Ursuline nuns in New Orleans. The marker is funded through a city grant awarded to the nonprofit lowernine.org.

Maybe it's the hazy glow of streetlamps, the echoes of jazz, or the narrow, dark alleyways. There's something about New Orleans that radiates romance and intrigue. The city is ancient by American ...

The Ursuline nuns, sent to New Orleans by Pope Pius III and Louis XV of France in 1727, were a civilizing influence on the early development of the fetid and ...

As New Orleans celebrates its 300th anniversary this year, Dave McNamara takes us inside the Old Ursuline convent in the Heart of Louisiana. The wooden steps show the wear of nearly three centuries.

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.

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NEW ORLEANS — They stayed through yellow fever epidemics that killed thousands. They hunkered down when cannons roared and blood flowed during the War of 1812. Through fire and flood, ...

The Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter of New Orleans – Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph.D., at New Liturgical Movement Blog The Catholic Sola Fide – Father Dwight Longenecker Blog ...