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St. Francisville is a town in and the parish seat of, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. [3] The population was 1,557 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area .
November 6, 1890 – The parish of St. Francis of Assisi was created. An existing double located on the uptown and lake side of the corner of State Street and Laurel Street served as the rectory, church, and school until funds could be raised for more permanent structures. [1]
The St. Francis Chapel (French: La chapelle Saint-François) in New Roads, Louisiana, also known as Saint Francis of Pointe Coupee, is a Gothic building built in 1894–95. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] It is the third church with this name built in Pointe Coupee.
By April 1812, Attakapas Parish became St. Martin Parish and St. Mary Parish. On April 30, the state was admitted to the Union with 25 parishes. By 1820, Washington Parish was added, and Feliciana Parish split into West and East in 1824. The next year, Jefferson Parish was carved from Orleans Parish.
The old parish church of Saint Francis was constructed in 1817. [3] It was the only building in Alexandria spared during the American Civil War.As the Union army pulled out of the town during the disastrous Red River Campaign, Father J. P. Bellier disguised his voice to impersonate that of General Nathaniel Banks, the Union commanding officer, and ordered the troops to spare the church. [3]
St. Francis de Sales Parish was founded around 1847 by the Rev. Zéphyrin Lévêque. Mass was initially celebrated in the Terrebonne Parish courthouse. [1] The first church building was completed in 1848 and construction on the present church was begun in 1936 under the direction of the Rev. August Vandebilt.
This is a list of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.The archdiocese encompasses eight civil parishes in Louisiana: St. Bernard, Jefferson (except Grand Isle) [note 1], Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, and Washington.
St. Francis Chapel in Pointe Coupée in 1738 [3] St. James in 1767; St. Gabriel in 1769. The oldest church in the diocese that still stands in its original form is St. Gabriel Church; Donaldsonville in 1772; Baton Rouge in 1792; Plattenville in 1793; In 1793, Pope Leo XIII erected the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas.