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Famed for his spirited rendition of “The Saints Come Marching In,” larger-than-life jazz legend Louis Armstrong, nicknamed “Satchmo,” was full of flaws — too fond of things that cut his life short and impacted his married love.
But he had a heart bigger than New Orleans — and a soul imprinted with baptismal grace shortly after his birth 125 years ago, on August 4, 1901, when his grandmother Josephine, a practicing Catholic, took her cutie-pie baby grandson to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Mid-City New Orleans to
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