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An Ursuline convent once stood in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. Now a plaque marks the spot. The convent was located at Dauphine and Sister streets in the Ninth Ward.
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.
Somewhere in the woods just east of North Illinois Street on Douglas Road lies the site of a former convent of Ursuline nuns. At the center of the grounds is a 3,000-plus square-foot building that ...
The former Mother House at the Ursuline Sister’s Convent has become The Nunnery, a goth do-it-yourself punk performance venue in Belleville IL.
The Ursuline convent was targeted because of conspiracy theories that, in many ways, were the 1830s version of the contemporary panic on the right regarding child sexual abuse: Pizzagate—the ...
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.