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Author Deggs, Mary Bernard.

Title No cross, no crown : black nuns in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Mary Bernard Deggs ; edited by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles E. Nolan
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 226 pages)
Series Black women writers series.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: MOTHERS HENRIETTE DELILLE AND JULIETTE GAUDIN; PART TWO: MOTHER JOSEPHINE CHARLES; PART THREE: MOTHER MARIE MAGDALENE ALPAUGH; PART FOUR: MOTHER MARIE CECILIA CAPLA; PART FIVE: MOTHER MARY AUSTIN JO ES; Notes; Index; About the Editors
Summary Nineteenth-century New Orleans was a diverse city. The French-speaking Catholic Creoles, whether black, white, or racially mixed -- so different from the city's English-speaking residents -- inspired intense curiosity and speculation. But none of the city's inhabitants evoked as much wonder as did the Sisters of the Holy Family, whose mission was to evangelize slaves and free people of color and to care for the poor, sick, and elderly. These women, whose community still thrives, are portrayed in an account
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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In Black Women Writers
Subject Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans, La.) -- Biography
SUBJECT Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans, La.) fast
Subject African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography
Nuns -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
African Americans
Nuns
Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Gould, Virginia Meacham.
Nolan, Charles E.
ISBN 0253108594
9780253108593
0253336309
9780253336309
1282066064
9781282066069