This curved walk is the final path to the mausoleum. From the Ursuline chapel, past the row of magnolia trees, past the French sundial with the months and days inscribed in French, an Ursuline nun finds her final resting place in this mausoleum. There are several hundred nuns buried in this beautiful place. And, I shall post this next photo because it struck me as quite humorous. (In New Orleans, we bury our dead above ground because of our high water table, so the tombs and mausoleums are always with us to remind us.) When my daughter was in school at Ursuline her class had a slumber party and at midnight they all went down to the Mausoleum. She still talks about the fright she had "in that spooky place."






Why is there a light on in the mausoleum? Is Sister Elizabeth Marie, the founder of the Bach piano contest in New Orleans, playing the piano? Or, is Sister St. Francis Xavier, the first woman pharmacist in the United States, mixing a potion? Just some thoughts I had when I saw this light on and wondering "Why is there a light in a mausoleum? (And, I don't know why I keep getting these little boxes with the red x when I want a picture.)