Our Lady of Prompt Succor

Our Lady of Prompt Succor The Madonna of New Orleans Patroness of Louisiana
The Canonically crowned image enshrined in the high altar
Location	Louisiana, United States of America
Date	1810
Witness	Mother Saint Michel President Andrew Jackson
Type	Golden wood image
Holy See approval	Pope Pius IX Pope Leo XIII Pope Pius XI
Shrine	The National Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor
Patronage	Louisiana (1928) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans Protection against hurricanes Castellammare del Golfo, Italy Kercem, Malta

Our Lady of Prompt Succor (French: Notre Dame du Prompt Secours) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a wooden devotional image enshrined in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. The famed image is closely associated with Mother Saint Michel, the Mother Superior of the Ursuline Order who also survived the French Revolution.

Pope Pius IX authorised the public devotion to the Marian title on 21 September 1851 and designated the 8th of January as its feast day of thanksgiving. Pope Leo XIII granted a Canonical Coronation to the image through Archbishop Francis Janssens on 10 November 1895.

The image is also known by its connection to President Andrew Jackson who was present before the controversial image during and after the Battle of New Orleans against the British invasion. Under this Marian title, the Virgin Mary is designated as the Principal Patroness of Louisiana and the Archdiocese of New Orleans dating from a 1928 Papal bull from the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The image is presently enshrined at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor while her feast day is celebrated on 8 January.

French Ursuline nuns first arrived in Louisiana in 1727. The nuns established a convent and founded what is the oldest school for girls in the territory of the modern-day U.S., Ursuline Academy, which educated the children of European colonists, Native Americans, and those of the local Creole people, slave or free. Spanish sisters came to assist the growing school in 1763 after Louisiana fell under Spanish control.