The children she rescued from the streets were usually given over to the care of the Sisters of the Holy Family, a Black Catholic order in the 700 block of Orleans Street. According to the story the sisters told Sable, Catholic convents were once closed to free Blacks, but in 1842 a free woman of color named Henriette Delille, with help from a White woman named Marie Jean Aliquot, managed to get an order sanctioned and affiliated. Delille and Aliquot were soon joined by two other free women who’d also dreamed of serving God by being nuns, Juliette Gaudin and Josephine Charles. Using a building
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