GENERAL
THE FIRST NUNS IN AMERICA. The first body of nuns to establish themselves in America were the Ursulines, who, tinder the superiorship of Madame de la Peltrie, established the Hotel Dieu at Quebec in May of the year 1639. The first body of religious women to establish a convent in the United States was also the Ursulines, at New Orleans, in 1727. The royal patent authorising the Ursulines to establish a convent in Louisiana was issued September 18, 1726, by King Louis XV., and August 7, 1727, the Ursulines began in Louisiana the great work of education, which has continued without interruption to the present day. ■
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New Zealand Tablet, 24 July 1913, Page 55
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107GENERAL New Zealand Tablet, 24 July 1913, Page 55
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