The Ursuline Convent

After reading The Ursulines and Other Religious Women I decided to go a little more in depth with one of the thigns the text mentioned. Gehman - the author - spoke and showed an illustration of a convent where the Ursulines  lived (group of nuns that arrived from France under permission of their king). He says this structure, the third built by these nuns, still remains standing and is actually "the oldest surviving structure of French colonial architecture in the Missisipi Valley". I read in this article that two miracles had supposedly occured in this place. First, there was a great fire and the nuns prayed to their lord that it stopped, and it was in that second that the winds blew the fire away. Secondly, they say it is because of the prayers of the nuns during the New Orleans war of 1812 that the "the badly outmanned and underequipped Americans defeated the British". This place definately has some history and looks like a great place to visit.

Picture of how the Convent looks Today