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The Église Sainte-Geneviève (French pronunciation: [eɡliz sɛ̃t ʒənvjɛv], "Church of St. Genevieve") is a parish church located in the former village of Sainte-Geneviève, Québec (now part of Montreal) on the north-west shore of the Island of Montreal overlooking the Rivière des Prairies.
St. Genevieve Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans located along the northeastern edge of Lake Pontchartrain in Slidell, Louisiana, United States. St. St. Genevieve is one of eight parishes which belongs to Deanery XII - East St. Tammany - Washington Deanery , an ecclesiastical division of the archdiocese.
The present church was designed by Francis Xavier Weiss, a legendary pastor who served the parish of Ste. Genevieve from 1865 until 1900, [1] and was built in a Gothic Revival style. In 1911, the church was enlarged with the rear wall removed and a hexagonal apse and two small transepts erected.
St. Genevieve Catholic Church and Cemetery of Brouillette is a historic Catholic Church founded in the 1800s along the banks of the Red River of the South near Marksville, Louisiana, United States, serving the Brouillette community. The current structure was built in the 1950s.
The first Mass was celebrated on January 25, 1923. The ornamental marble and plaster work was added in 1931 and the final paint scheme was done in 1954. Two of the parishes that were created from St. Joseph include St. Genevieve Parish, that was established in 1959, and St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in 1970. [3]
The floor plan of this church was a greek cross plan, meaning is have a central mass and four arms of equal length. The dome is held up by concealed flying buttresses and light vaulting produced via stone. [12] It could be said that the Abbey of Saint Genivieve was influenced by St. Peter's Basilica, and St. Paul's Cathedral.
The Abbey of Sainte-Genevieve was founded next to the church in 502, and the church became part of the abbey. [ 1 ] In 1222, as the population of the neighbourhood grew, and particularly to serve the masters and students of the new College of Sorbonne , Pope Honorius III authorized the establishment of an autonomous church, which was devoted ...
Archdiocese of St. Louis: Deanery: Ste. Genevieve: ... Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Ozora in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. [1]