It was a little after 9 a.m. Monday when Sister Eva Regina Martin got on the intercom with an urgent announcement for the 30 or so nuns at the Sisters of the Holy Family convent who hadn’t yet left for work: Please assemble in chapel immediately, she said.
Minutes later, Martin told them the news she’d just retrieved by e-mail from Rome. The Vatican has moved their founder, Henriette Delille, a step closer to sainthood for her years of work caring for cast-off slaves, impoverished Africans and people of color in antebellum New Orleans.
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