Wednesday, April 9, 2014

New Orleans, Louisiana

Focus on St. Louis Cemetery No. 1:  Everybody who comes here wants to see the tomb of Marie Leveau, New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess. After the revolution in Haiti, which ended in 1804, many Haitian refugees arrived in Louisiana and revived the practice of voodoo. Marie, herself, was a practicing Catholic, having been married in the St. Louis Cathedral.  When she lost her husband, she took up with a man who became the father of her 15 children. It is in his family tomb, the Glapion tomb, where her remains are interred (probably). [2014]


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