Jeanie Hannaman

By Kevin Rush, Church Militant - But one story that had escaped my admittedly porous memory came back during a tour of the Jackson mansion... on the eve of the Battle of New Orleans, a convent of Ursuline nuns had offered prayers for victory. The Ursulines had come from France, so they were not well disposed towards the British, who, since the days of Henry VIII, had been hunting priests and decapitating saints... On the eve of the major battle, the Ursulines placed a statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor — so named for the Blessed Mother's immediate assistance with a reverend mother's prior request — in the window of their Chapel of Our Lady of Consolation and began to pray nonstop.