Title: The Catholic Woman as Deacon of the Sacraments, Priestess of the Sacramentals
Description: I wrote this while at the USL Center for La. Studies. The piece studies two rural communities not served by fulltime Catholic priests until the 1930s. With the absence of clergy, informants from both Meaux and Henry describe the role of women in preserving the sacraments (la messe blanche) and the sacramentals. The bishop of Havana credits women in Louisiana for preserving the faith in those days in the diocese known as the wet swamp.
Subjects: newsflash: bishop of Havana credits women for saving the faith in Louisiana
Places: the prairies of sw louisiana and the louisiana diocese
Time periods: from mid 1700s to the 1920s