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St. James Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Jacques) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.The parish seat is Convent. [1] The parish was created in 1807. [2] St. James Parish is a part of the New Orleans–Metairie, Louisiana metropolitan statistical area, sitting between New Orleans and Baton Rouge on the Mississippi Ri
St. Landry Catholic Church; St. Margaret Catholic Church (Albany, Louisiana) St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church (St. Martinville, Louisiana) St. Mary Magdalen Church; St. Patrick's Catholic Church (West Pointe à la Hache, Louisiana) St. Philomene Catholic Church and Rectory; St. Anne Catholic Church (Napoleonville, Louisiana) St. Joseph ...
Pointe à la Hache: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. A word meaning persimmons created from the Louisiana Creole and the Atakapa language 22,386: 2,429 sq mi (6,291 km 2) Pointe Coupee Parish: 077: New Roads: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. French phrase la pointe coupée or in English, the cut-off point, which refers to a bend in ...
Main building at "Laura" Creole plantation, in Vacherie, St. James, 2002 photograph. The River Parishes are the parishes in Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that span both banks of the Mississippi River, and are part of the larger Acadiana region. [1]
Church closed, building went to Our Lady of Prompt Succor. [3] Bridge City [3] 2008 [3] Holy Trinity Catholic Church. now operates as an opera house. 725 Saint Ferdinand Street New Orleans Faubourg Marigny: 1997 Immaculate Heart of Mary St. Maria Goretti Church took the congregation. [4] New Orleans East [4] 2008 [3] Incarnate Word
St. Michael's Church Rectory. St. Michael's Church (c. 1875), a cruciform basilica with a tower in Gothic Revival and Romanesque styles. It has a "five bay, aisled nave, and a massive altar set in a great niche whose back wall is cut through with a colonnade screen. The church is entered through a vestibule set in the base in a single central ...
The first Catholic missionary arrived in northwestern Louisiana from East Texas in 1717. The Franciscan priest Antonio Margil encountered Adaes Native Americans near present-day Robeline. At the tribe's request, he constructed the Mission of San Miguel de Linares, the first Catholic church in the region.
The St. Anne Catholic Church in Napoleonville, Louisiana is a historic Roman Catholic church which was built in 1909. It is located about four blocks inland from Bayou Lafourche at 417 St. Joseph Street, as part of a two-block parcel which includes a contributing rectory (1895) and a contributing cemetery (started 1874), as well as three non-contributing buildings. [2]