Forty-OneThe Mother Superior strides confidently into the parlor of the historic old convent in Terrebone Parish, an ornate French sterling silver crucifix around her neck swinging rhythmically as she walks. Sister Elizabeth DeLong wears the habit of the Ursuline Order, one of the first orders of religious women who came to Louisiana from Paris, France, where the Mother house was established in 1727. Her dedication to young, abused and pregnant girls is planted firmly in her DNA, as she is a descendant of Morgana Hughes who was held captive on the ship Golcanda and secretly sent to Paris where she was abused and subjugated by the men of the secret society who did not want her to interfere with their nefarious exploitation of young, white girls.
Morgana escaped to the Paris Mother House wi
