St. Mary's Bishopric, Chartres St.

ID: 5562 ~ Source: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Mrs. Joy Segura, 20040096.16. ~ Creator: Edward Claudel (photographer), Soule Art Company, Boston (manufacturer) ~ Date: 1885-1910

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

Lantern Slide

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

St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the Herriman Family

By Michael Tisserand

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…