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The school's enrollment continued to rise until a devastating [[Yellow fever]] epidemic in 1873. Subsequent growth was mostly due to the efforts of Rev. Napoleon Joseph Roulleaux, who was chaplain of the convent and school. In 1906, a fire destroyed the school but the buildings were rebuilt with a gothic design from clay bricks on the same property. In September, 1962, the academy was transferred to a new site on Fairfield Avenue, where it remained until its closure due to economic struggles at the end of the 1987-88 session, culminating in 119 years of devoted service by the Daughters of the Cross. St. Vincent’s Academy declined to consider a merger at the time with [[Loyola College Prep]], which was a local all-male Catholic high school founded by the [[Jesuits]] in 1902.
Only a very small number of nuns from the Order remain in the Northern Louisiana community. They are retired and are no longer involved in the operations of any of the numerous remaining schools the Order founded in the region. The Order of the Daughters of the Cross, overall, now has a limited active presence in the United States, primarily restricted to ministries of caring for seniors, the sick, dying, and the
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