HMSS
How many countries are our sisters in?
13
What type of swamp do we live in?
Freshwater
2005
How many sisters (including those in the formation house) are in our region?
42
What does the state bird of Louisiana, the Brown Pelican, represent?
Self sacrifice
Who was the first native born American saint?
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
What is the name of the LSU Tiger mascot?
Mike
Where was the first community in the United States located?
Oklahoma
Louisiana swamps are home to the largest population of which animal in the United States?
Alligators
Which saint said, “Lord, make me chaste, but not yet”?
St. Augustine of Hippo
Who was the only U.S. President to live in Louisiana?
Hint: He was president 1849-1850
Zachary Taylor
What year did the convent in Baton Rouge flood?
2016
The Atchafalaya Basin is America's largest river swamp, what state is it larger than?
Rhode Island
How many saints did Pope Francis canonize?
942
Who is jokingly called the patron saint of swamps?
Henry David Thoreau
“my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum… I seemed to have reached a new world, so wild a place…far away from human society. What’s the need of visiting far-off mountains and bogs, if a half-hour’s walk will carry me into such wildness and novelty.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
In what year was the first Italian Festival at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Cleveland?
2026 will be 100 years
What is peak crawfish season?
March- May
Which saint is the patron of ecologists and founded a monastery on Skellig Michael (featured in Star Wars)?
St. Finnian or St. Fionan of Clonard
What country has the largest Catholic population in the world?
Brazil
What is the state drink of Louisiana?
Milk