Sovereign Pontiff has conferred the privilege of solemn coronation upon the statue of the divine patroness of New Orleans, a privilege restricted to the most renowned sanctuaries alone of Christendom, and the first of the kind to take place in the United States.
In 1824 the Ursulines removed to their present establishment on the river bank, then three miles below, now well inside, the city limits. With its groves of
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pecan trees, its avenues of oaks, its flowers and palms, its cloisters and terraces overlooking the river, its massive, quaint buildings filled with generous dormitories and halls, its batten doors opening on broad galleries; its chapel and miraculous statue, its historic past and present activity, its cultivated, sweet-voiced sisters, the old Ursuline Convent, as it has come to be called, is still the preferred centre of feminine educa-
