New Orleans Nuns Receive Grant From Business Community to Rebuild Their Convent

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Amid the gray dreariness of Lakeview's post-Hurricane Katrina environs, a group of dedicated nuns is busy piecing their convent back together with a nearly $30,000 boost from the business community.

The Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick have called New Orleans home since 1914, spending nearly a century tending to the sick and dying in their time of greatest need. The devastation Katrina left behind threatened to permanently chase the 18 nuns from their beloved city.

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New Orleans Nuns Receive Grant From Business Community to Rebuild Their Convent

"We never evacuated in our whole lives," said Mother Superior Silvia Juarez. "When we heard there was a mandatory evacuation, we decided we should think about leaving, but we o...

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