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The Ursuline academy in Galveston.
Well before the city of Galveston was founded, the Ursuline order was instituted at the Vatican by Pope Paul III. For the education of girls and the care for the ill and underprivileged. The Ursuline order was known informally as St. Angela's daughters. In the Americas, This organization had established the convent of new orleans in 1727. The Nuns in new Orleans may plans to travel to Galveston, to establish Ursuline Academy In the fledgling city on the Gulf coast. The Ursuline academy at Galveston also served as a convent. And was established in February of 1847.  The school was on a 10 acre campus on avenue in and 25th street. Today Ave. N is also known as Ursuline street.  When the nuns arrived in Galveston, They had little outside assistance. But two volunteers from the Ursuline convent in Quebec were sent to assist the convent on the barren island.  The original wood-frame structure was destroyed by fire in 1854. And a yellow fever epidemic swept through an 1855. Despite the early hardships for the Earth's lean order, their mission of find education. Became well-known across the state and attendance swelled.  The academy was also open. To orphaned children.  During the civil war, the Uline nuns converted their new still unfurnished building into a hospital and they volunteered as nurses. They served Confederate soldiers in the beginning. Then union soldiers, when the north won control of the island in 1862, but their most formidable test came on new year's day, 1863, during the battle of Galveston, the nuns at the convent flew their yellow undergarments to mark themselves as a community of nun. Registration for Thele academy opened nearly as soon as the cannon fire ceased and it quickly filled to capacity that surpassed pre-war years. In the 1890s architect, Nicholas Clayton designed the massive Victorian Gothic building that other significant Galveston would've trouble holding a candle to. during the storm of 1900,  over 1000 people sought refuge, inline academy and survived. There are multiple reports of four babies being born in the academy during the storm  mother married Joseph Dahmer superior of the Uline academy who is present during the storm. Was eventually appointed the first provincial of the Uline convents in Texas and Illino

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