To appraise one’s worthiness of becoming an authentic New Orleans saint, scoring touchdowns, sacking quarterbacks and kicking field goals are of zero consequence.
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s “American Perspectives” gallery has a new — and significant — painting. It’s a portrait is of a mixed-race youth, circa the 1830s or 1840s. According to the Lyman Allyn in...
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- The Sisters of the Holy Family used a recent visit by Cardinal Peter Turkson to update him on the status of the sainthood cause for Mother Henriette Delille, the free woman of color who founded the congregation in New Orleans in 1842.
Mother Delille was declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 after what is now called the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints approved historical documentation that she had practiced a life of heroic virtue.
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Preservation Hall Brass Band, by Alan Flattmann (www.alanflattmann.com) In 1857, in a decree that flouted Louisiana case law that allowed white men to free their enslaved children, paramours and common-law wives, the Louisiana legislature voted that slavery could no longer be reversed. It was one more tightening of the screws by plantation interests against Blacks as the legislature grew more polarized over the slave economy. In 1858, New Orleans closed an African Methodist Episcopal church after police raids for “unlawful assembly” of enslaved and free Blacks. The city of 116,000, the nation’s largest market in the sale of human beings, had nearly 10,000 free people of color