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The Ursulines have a long history in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Arrival of the Ursulines in New Orleans, 1727 (19th century depiction) As early as 1726, King Louis XV of France decided that three Ursuline nuns from Rouen should go to New Orleans to establish a hospital for poor sick people and to provide education for young girls of ...
Ursuline Convent (French: Couvent des Ursulines) was a series of historic Ursuline convents in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.In 1727, at the request of Governor Étienne Perier, nuns from the Ursuline Convent of Rouen (Normandy) went to New Orleans to found a convent, run a hospital, and take care of educating young girls.
French Ursuline nuns first arrived in Louisiana in 1727. The nuns established a convent and founded what is the oldest school for girls in the territory of the modern-day U.S., Ursuline Academy, which educated the children of European colonists, Native Americans, and those of the local Creole people, slave or free. [1]
The first school was Ursuline Academy, began in 1727 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the oldest all-girls school in the country. It is the oldest all-girls school in the country. The Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School [ 24 ] in the Bronx is the oldest all-girls Catholic high school in New York State, founded in 1855, the same year Sacred ...
Courtyard. Ursuline Academy is a private, Catholic, all-girls high school and elementary school (Toddler 2 through 12th grade) in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.It is located within the Archdiocese of New Orleans and under the trusteeship of the Ursuline Sisters of the New Orleans Community, part of the Ursuline Central Province of North America.
Marie-Madeleine Hachard (17 February 1704, Rouen - 9 August 1760, New Orleans) was one of the first members of the first Ursuline Convent in New Orleans in French Louisiana in 1727. She is best known because of a printed correspondence addressed to her father that was published and attributed to her by the Rouen printer Antoine Le Prévost in 1728.
Marie Tranchepain, also known as Marie St. Augustin (ca. 1680–1733), was a French woman of the Order of St. Ursula and in 1727 sailed to New Orleans where she became the first Mother Superior of the Old Ursuline Convent. At that time, New Orleans was part of French Louisiana. She established the first school for girls in what is now the ...
The first women religious in what would become the United States, were fourteen French Ursuline nuns who arrived in New Orleans in July 1727, [5] and opened Ursuline Academy, which continues in operation and is the oldest continuously operating school for girls in the United States. [6]