Brothers of the Sacred Heart

The Brothers of the Sacred Heart founded St. Aloysius College in 1869, and in 1952 Brother Martin Hernandez, as provincial, planned and supervised a second school in Gentilly. Archbishop Joseph Rummel contributed $475,000 toward Cor Jesu High School, which opened in 1954. The two schools merged in 1969 as Brother Martin High School. Katrina closed the school in August 2005, and its students studied for a time at Catholic High in Baton Rouge before it reopened in New Orleans in January 2006. Its alumni include Senator Allen Ellender, Mayor Arthur O'Keefe and Archbishop Gregory Aymond.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Congo Square — 2.9 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 3.1 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• The Cabildo — 3.2 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 3.2 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• London Avenue Canal Floodwall Breach — 0.6 mi
• Centennial — 0.9 mi
• Pontchartrain Park Historic District — 1.4 mi
• Fannie C. Williams / Valena C. Jones Elementary School — 1.7 mi