527. Cheryl White.

<div>527. Cheryl White joins us to <a href="http://archive.org/download/527-cherytl-white/527--Cherytl_White.mp3" target="_blank">discuss</a> her research into the Yellow Fever outbreak in Shreveport in 1873, and the priests who died while ministering to patients suffering from the fever. Dr White recently unveiled a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210727125346/https://springstreetmuseum.org/assets/uploads/2021/06/YellowFeverCovidShreveport-1-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">report</a> on the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1873 and the COVID outbreak of 2020. <a name='more'></a> "The sacrifice of five Catholic priests who gave their lives ministering to people in Shreveport during the 1873 yellow fever epidemic is memorialized in stained glass at Holy Trinity Church in downtown. Their stories have been regularly recounted across nearly 150 years of news reports and histories of Shreveport. The city’s Pierre Avenue is named in honor of one of them, Father Jean Pierre, the first pastor of Holy Trinity. And now their story is becoming more widely known in the Catholic Church in the U.S. and beyond with the formal opening of their sainthood case" (<a href="https://www.catholicherald.com/article/national/cause-opens-for-louisiana-priests-who-sacrificed-their-lives-in-1873-epidemic/" moz-do-not-send="true"><i>Catholic Herald</i></a>). </div> <ol type="a"> <li>This week in Louisiana history. June 15, 2015. Blaze Starr, dancer linked to Earl K. Long, dead at 83. </li> <li>This week in New Orleans history. Upstairs Lounge Fire, June 24, 1973. <br /> </li> <li>This week in Louisiana. <br /> Annual Lebeau Zydeco Festival<br /> July 01, 2023<br /> 103 Lebeau Church Road<br /> Lebeau LA 71345<br /> Phone:<br /> (337) 945-4238<br /> Email: <a href="mailto:gmlemon@yahoo.com" moz-do-not-send="true">gmlemon@yahoo.com<br />