St. Mary's Catholic Church, Exterior

ID: 5555 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Kathryn O'Dwyer ~ Creator: Kathryn O'Dwyer, Photographer ~ Date: August 19, 2019

This file appears in: St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the Herriman Family

This file appears in: St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the Herriman Family

St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the Herriman Family

On September 4, 1846 — just one year after the New Orleans Archdiocese constructed this church adjacent to the Old Ursuline Convent — George Herriman Sr. and Louisa Eckel arrived here to be married by Etienne Rousselon, a French missionary who had…