Mother Henriette Delille bucked the French Creole system and became a candidate for sainthood!
In the traditional Catholic French Creole ways of pre-civil New Orleans, most young women did as their mothers taught them. The expectations were clear. Look your very best and find a suitable husband. But not Henriette Diaz DeLille. Henriette was born in 1813. She was considered an octaroon, her mother was a quadroon, which is…