Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city . he friars of hieratic Spain had not taken a hand in the earlyhistory of Louisiana, and left behind them popular memories much more clearly outlined thanthe picturesque figures of Alcaldes or Alferez-Reals. It would be stranger still, however, if thesombre-garbed and iron-featured ecclesiasticism of Catholic Spain, and the almost jovially pious,paternally benevo
Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city . he friars of hieratic Spain had not taken a hand in the earlyhistory of Louisiana, and left behind them popular memories much more clearly outlined thanthe picturesque figures of Alcaldes or Alferez-Reals. It would be stranger still, however, if thesombre-garbed and iron-featured ecclesiasticism of Catholic Spain, and the almost jovially pious,paternally benevolent ecclesiasticism of Catholic France had encountered one another withoutproducing in the social body a disturbing ferment, as of antagonistic chemicals brought intosudden conjunction. The spirit of church discipline in France, from the period of Louis leGrand—and, indeed, long before it also—until the fall of the old regime, had softened the aus-terity of its countenance in accordance with the polished luxury of the period; while that ofSpain had relaxed nothing of its gloomy and grim severity, and had lost but little of its fear-inspiring judicial power. The Inquisition was still mighty when Louisiana was ceded to Spain;. GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS, 100 and at this very time the French ecclesiastics who administered ghostly comfort to the Creoleswere leading rather jolly lives. At least it is certain that the S vanish monks who came to thucolony with the new administration were greatly scandalized at what they heard and saw;fiere was much fuss and fury in consequence ; and the history of that church quarrel is one ofthe most curious episodes in the chronicles of Louisiana. FATHER DAGOBEET. Father Dagobert, of sainted memory, was the thorn upon which the newly arrived piety ofaustere Spain unexpectedly sat down. He was Superior of the French Capuchins of Louisiana,and Vicar-General of the diocese. There had been a tremendous row in 1755 between theJesuits and the Capuchins, wh
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