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St. Augustine Church in 1858. When free people of color organized in the 1830s and received permission from Bishop Antoine Blanc to build a church, the Ursuline Sisters donated the property, on the condition that the church be named St. Augustine, after one of their patron saints, Augustine of Hippo. The church was dedicated on October 9, 1842.
St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery, or the Isle Brevelle Church, is a historic Catholic parish property founded in 1829 near Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. It is the cultural center of the Cane River area's historic French, Spanish, Native American and Black Creole community.
St. Martin's Episcopal School was founded in 1947 as a co-educational, independent school. It was the first Episcopal school in the region and operated originally as a parish elementary school on the grounds of its namesake church. It moved to the current campus on Green Acres Road in 1950 to accommodate the growing number of students.
In mid-October, Jesuit opened another satellite school at St. Martin's Episcopal School in Metairie in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, where about 500 students attended until Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving, Jesuit's students and faculty returned to their own campus, becoming the first flooded school in New Orleans to reopen ...
School Name Location Nickname Colors Acadiana High School: Scott, Louisiana: Wreckin' Rams Barbe High School: Lake Charles, Louisiana: Buccaneers
On December 5, 2009, the Diocesan Convention elected Morris K. Thompson, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Kentucky, as 11th Bishop of Louisiana. [1] His episcopal ordination took place on May 8, 2010 with his seating in Christ Church Cathedral to follow on Ascension Day, Thursday May 13, 2010. [2]
Jerome LeDoux, S.V.D. (February 26, 1930 - January 7, 2019) was a Black Catholic priest best known for his ministry at St. Augustine Church in New Orleans, Louisiana.He was noted for his Afrocentric Masses, his ebullient style and his writing.
Bernard Griffith - Louisiana basketball coaches hall of fame head basketball coach, Bernard Griffith, was head coach at St. Augustine from 1987 to 2004. [25] During his eighteen seasons at the school, he compiled a record of 491–127 and won a USA Today national championship in 1995, and three state championships in 1992, 1995, and 1999 along ...