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Dr. Norman C. Francis

By Paper Monuments, Nik Richard, artwork & Sharlene Sinegal Decuir, narrative
In August of 1948, a young man from Lafayette, Louisiana named Norman C. Francis moved to New Orleans to further his education at Xavier University. While at Xavier he remained grounded in the life lessons his parents taught him as a young boy,…

Madre Francesca Cabrini

By Paper Monuments, Nik Richard, Artwork & Nick Weldon, Narrative
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini arrived in New Orleans in 1892, with a charge to help poor Italian immigrants at a time of intense xenophobia in the city. A year earlier, a local lynch mob had murdered 11 Sicilian immigrants. Yellow fever had also…
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