![]() ![]() ![]() The feast of the Transfiguration was adopted into the Roman Rite from the Byzantine in the reign of Pope Callixtus III (1455-58), in thanksgiving for the Christian victory against the Turks at the siege of Belgrade on August 6th, 1456. Mary’s Church, it forms the Catholic Cultural Heritage Center of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.” Later, it served as a residence for priests serving mainly the Italian community and then housed the Archdiocesan Archives. ![]() Over the centuries, this building has been a convent for the Ursuline nuns, a school, an archbishop’s residence, the archdiocesan central office, a meeting place for the Louisiana Legislature. “Constructed by French Colonial Engineers under the auspices of the crown, the convent was designed in 1745 and completed in 1752-1753. The connection to the old world is palpable. All photos are my own except where noted.) As an American, accustomed to a national history that sometimes seems thimble-deep compared to Europe’s, it does one good to visit a building from the mid-eighteenth century, built by Frenchmen on what would later be our country’s soil. (In what follows, I will be freely drawing upon descriptions offered here, at the official website.
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