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- catalog abstract ""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 written in the 1890s 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 sister's early school on Bayou Road and thus would have known, as a child, Henriette Delille, the foundress and first mother superior of the Sisters of the Holy Family, and the other women who joined her."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12269835.
- catalog contributor b12269836.
- catalog contributor b12269837.
- catalog contributor b12269838.
- catalog contributor b12269839.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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 written in the 1890s 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 sister's early school on Bayou Road and thus would have known, as a child, Henriette Delille, the foundress and first mother superior of the Sisters of the Holy Family, and the other women who joined her."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxxvi, 226 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "No cross, no crown.".
- catalog identifier "0253336309 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "No cross, no crown.".
- catalog isPartOf "Black women writers net".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "No cross, no crown.".
- catalog spatial "Louisiana New Orleans".
- catalog subject "271/.97 B 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Louisiana New Orleans Biography.".
- catalog subject "BX4496.7.Z7 D44 2001".
- catalog subject "Nuns Louisiana New Orleans Biography.".
- catalog subject "Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans, La.) Biography.".
- catalog title "No cross, no crown : Black nuns in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Mary Bernard Deggs ; edited by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles E. Nolan.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".