 The 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans occurred in 2015, and commemorative events were held.According to Michael Pasquier, promotion of devotion to the Marian title of Our Lady of Prompt Succor was an attempt by the Catholic hierarchy to ease tensions in a Catholic population divided over a French Creole Catholicism and an Anglo-Catholic hierarchy in Baltimore.He maintains that the devotion never garnered a widespread following due to its "lack of multi-ethnic appeal" to minority groups at the time.