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Colored Nuns in Nlt;*w Orleans, La-The Convent and Mother House of the Sisterhood of the Holy Family ^Colored), New Orleans, La., was recently destroyed by tire. Temporary shelter has been provided for the listers, but they will need the aid ot the charitable in rebuilding their home. The bisters of the Holy family are oneof tiie two religious orders of Colored women in the United tState, the otherbeing the Sisters of Providence, organized in Baltimore, Md. The late Archbishop Blanc and his Vicar General, the late Very Kev. Abbe Kousselon, founded the Sisters of tire Holy Family in 1842 They have live houses of their order in Louisiana, three in New Orleans, one in Doualdsonville and another in Opelousaw. Their Mother House, novitiate and select school is located on Orleans, near Koyal 8t (recently burned); it has twenty-three sisters, with ninety children attending school and some boarding pupils The asylum for Colored orphan girls is on Tonti, near Hospital St.; it is managed by five Si sters and shelters eighty-eightorphans. Their Old People s Home provides for thirty-one old inmates, in charge of four Sisters; it is located at Xo. 40 St. Bernard Ave At Donaldsou-viile they have a school w ith loo pupils and four .Sifters, and fifty pupils and three Sifters in the school at Opelousas.
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American Catholic Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Apr 27, 1889
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