{"id":24877,"date":"2025-05-11T07:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-leo-xivs-creole-roots-tell-a-story-of-new-orleans\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T07:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:10:54","slug":"pope-leo-xivs-creole-roots-tell-a-story-of-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-leo-xivs-creole-roots-tell-a-story-of-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV\u2019s Creole Roots Tell a Story of New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One day in June 1900, a census taker visited the New Orleans home of Joseph and Louise Martinez, Pope Leo XIV\u2019s grandparents. They lived on North Prieur Street, just north of the French Quarter, a neighborhood considered the cradle of Louisiana\u2019s Creole people of color.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Joseph N. Martinez was recorded as a Black man, born in \u201cHayti.\u201d His wife, two daughters and an aunt, were also marked \u201cB\u201d in a column denoting \u201ccolor or race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ten years later, the census came knocking again. The family had grown \u2014 there were six daughters now. Other things changed, too: Mr. Martinez\u2019s place of birth was listed this time as Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. And the family\u2019s race is recorded as \u201cW,\u201d for white.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That simple switch, from \u201cB\u201d to \u201cW,\u201d suggests a complex, and very American, story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For much of the 19th century, New Orleans operated under a racial system that distinguished among white people, Black people and mixed-race Creole people like the Martinezes. But by the early 20th century, Jim Crow was the order of the day, and it tended to deal in black and white, with myriad restrictions imposed upon any person of color.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The selection of Robert Francis Prevost as the first pope from the United States, and the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/08\/us\/pope-leo-creole-new-orleans.html\" title=\"\">subsequent revelation of his Creole roots<\/a>, have brought those historical realities to the fore \u2014 and an interview with the pope\u2019s brother John Prevost, 71, connected them to the present day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Late Thursday, Mr. Prevost, who lives in the suburbs of Chicago, told The New York Times that his brothers always considered themselves to be white. As for his mother, he said, \u201cI really couldn\u2019t tell you for sure, she might have just said Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And so, a story of American racial rigidity also suggests a certain fluidity, constrained by the often harsh racist past that is an inescapable part of the country\u2019s story. New Orleans is not unique in its exposure to such stories. But it knows them well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jari Honora, a local genealogist and historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum in the French Quarter, discovered the new pope\u2019s New Orleans roots on Thursday. Since then, he and others, including in the Dominican Republic, have been pushing to find out as much as they can about Leo\u2019s family history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to the census records, much of the information recovered so far has come by way of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, which maintains thousands of records dating back to 1720. Katie Beeman, the director of the archdiocese\u2019s archives, has found marriage records from 1887 for the pope\u2019s maternal grandparents, and from 1864 for his great-grandparents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Beeman was especially excited when she uncovered the record that Eugenie Grambois, the pope\u2019s great-grandmother, had been baptized in 1840 at St. Louis Cathedral, the spired basilica in the heart of the French Quarter that is among the city\u2019s most recognizable landmarks. Ms. Beeman called her mother to share the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a special mass at the cathedral on Friday, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans brought attention to the discovery. The pope\u2019s ancestor had received her first sacrament in the same font that is still in the back of the church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are many connections we have with him,\u201d the archbishop said in his homily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Similar sentiments were expressed across New Orleans, especially among those who share Leo\u2019s Creole heritage and now feel a special connection to the new pontiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is like a reward from God given to us for everything we\u2019ve struggled through,\u201d said Denease Sorapuru, who identifies as Creole and descended from an ancestral mix of Irish, Italian, Basque and Native American heritage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, Ms. Beeman and other researchers and genealogists continued digging, hoping to identify even more of the pope\u2019s family tree in Louisiana and beyond. \u201cIt seems like it just keeps going,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One major question that historians hope to resolve is the birthplace of the pope\u2019s grandfather. Though he married into an old New Orleans family, records indicate that Joseph Martinez might have been relatively new to the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His marriage certificate matches the 1900 census record showing that he was born in Haiti. But other documents list the Dominican Republic or Louisiana as his birthplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nailing that down has become a goal for historians in the Caribbean, said Edwin Espinal Hern\u00e1ndez, a genealogist and the director of the law school at the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y Maestra, a Roman Catholic university in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Experts have yet to find Mr. Martinez\u2019s birth certificate, but have found other indications that he was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Mr. Espinal Hern\u00e1ndez said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Whatever the answer, many in New Orleans knew enough about the family\u2019s roots by Friday to feel a greater kinship with the pope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Michael White, 70, a jazz clarinetist, bandleader and retired music educator who grew up Catholic in New Orleans, said Leo\u2019s selection had left him \u201cshocked and surprised and happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think he will get a lot of support from people down here,\u201d Dr. White said. \u201cI think there will be an outpouring of not only pride, but you know, a desire to, to help him and hope that things can become better for the Catholic Church, but also for people here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sorapuru had a humble request. She remembers the thrill of Pope John Paul II\u2019s visit to New Orleans in 1987. Leo needs to come, too, she said, and preside over Mass at St. Louis Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As far as she\u2019s concerned, his roots are enough to make him a product of New Orleans. And she wants to welcome him home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Robert Chiarito<!-- --> and <!-- -->Frances Robles<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/09\/us\/pope-creole-roots-new-orleans.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day in June 1900, a census taker visited the New 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