The next time you visit New Orleans, we recommend you check out the New Orleans Healing Center. There, you’ll discover a shrine to Marie Laveau, one of the most interesting characters in all of Louisiana history.

Tucked away in the New Orleans Healing Center on St. Claude Ave., the International Shrine to Marie Laveau is really something special.
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Here you can see the shrine covered in offerings for the summer event St. John's Eve.
Marie Laveau was a well known Voo-Doo practitioner whose life is surrounded by legends and stories.
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Marie Laveau hosted city-wide rituals that were said to heal people and create dramatic changes within the city. She also served as the personal healer and voodoo practitioner for many prominent New Orleanians.
This shrine is tended by the nearby Island of Salvation Botanica, owned by Sallie Ann Glassman, who is a modern-day Vodou practitioner in New Orleans.
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She hosts regular events and talks about the heritage of Voudo, including the annual St. John's Eve event that happens every summer and pays homage to Marie Laveau.

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During that time, many of Marie Laveau's current followers provide her with offerings and gifts in order to curry favor with her.
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Making offerings to Marie Laveau is said to help individuals on their healing journey as well as offer solace from grief or resolution from conflict.
Some even believe that Marie Laveau has transcended space and time and that individuals can communicate directly with her spirit.
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This might be part of the reason why her grave is another place where many individuals give offerings and say prayers.
So the question is, are you ready to visit this shrine and pay your regards to this epic figure?
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Let us know how it goes if you do!

Have you ever visited this shrine before or the grave of Marie Laveau? We want to hear your stories! And if you’re looking for more haunted information about Louisiana, check out our article about the most haunted places in Louisiana here!

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