{"product_id":"no-cross-no-crown-black-nuns-in-nineteenth-century-new-orleans-paperback","title":"No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSister Mary Bernar Deggs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVirginia Meacham Gould\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCharles E. Nolan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese women, whose community still thrives, are portrayed in an account written between 1896 and 1898 by one of their sisters, Mary Bernard Deggs, who shortly before her death made it her mission to record the remarkable historical journey the women had taken to serve those of their race. Although Deggs did not officially join the Sisters of the Holy Family until 1873, she was a student at the sisters' early school on Bayou Road and thus would have known, as a child, Henriette Delille, the founder and first mother superior of the Sisters of the Holy Family, and the other\u003cbr\u003ewomen who joined her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis account captures, in a most graphic way, the founding of the\u003cbr\u003eSisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans in 1842 and the difficult years that followed. It was not until 1852 that the foundresses were able to\u003cbr\u003etake their first official vows and exchange their blue percale gowns for\u003cbr\u003eblack ones (and it was 1873 before they were permitted to wear a formal\u003cbr\u003ereligious habit). Shortly before Delille's death in 1862, Union forces\u003cbr\u003eseized the city, and Delille's successor, Juliette Gaudin, faced dire\u003cbr\u003eeconomic circumstances. The war and postwar years economically devastated\u003cbr\u003eNew Orleans and its population. Freed slaves poured into the city, \u003cbr\u003eunintentionally adding themselves to the already overwhelming mission of\u003cbr\u003ethe sisters. Those were the poorest and most uncertain years the sisters\u003cbr\u003ewere to face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe know very little about Sister Mary Bernard Deggs herself, but her history of the early years of the Sisters of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Meacham Gould teaches history at Our Lady of the Holy Cross College in New Orleans and is author of Chained to the Rock of Adversity.Charles E. Nolan is Archivist of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9.26 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52611047194931,"sku":"9780253215437","price":44.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/iKuwkO_xGk9780253215437.webp?v=1783078277","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/no-cross-no-crown-black-nuns-in-nineteenth-century-new-orleans-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}