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After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, this region because part of the new United States. In 1817, the St. Xavier Chapel was constructed in Alexandria, its first Catholic facility. [3] In 1829, a Reverend Martin of Avoyelles visited Catholics living along the Red, Black and Ouachita rivers in Louisiana.
St. Joseph 711 N. Columbus St, Alexandria Church dedicated in 1916 to serve Alexandria's African-American community [26] St. Lawrence 6222 Franconia Rd, Alexandria Founded in 1967, church dedicated in 1970 [27] [28] St. Louis 2907 Popkins Ln, Alexandria Founded in 1949. Church dedicated in 1962 [29] St. Rita 3815 Russell Rd, Alexandria Founded ...
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alexandria, located in Alexandria, Louisiana. The cathedral and related buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 29 March 1984 as St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Complex. The complex includes the cathedral building, St. Francis Academy ...
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.
Rita of Cascia, OSA (born Margherita Ferri Lotti; 1381 – 22 May 1457), was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun.After Rita's husband died, she joined a small community of nuns, who later became Augustinians, where she was known both for practicing mortification of the flesh [1] and for the efficacy of her prayers.
Established March 17, 1883, The Alexandria Town Talk is a daily newspaper for Alexandria-Pineville and the thirteen parishes which comprise central Louisiana. The newspaper was owned by the family of the late Jane Wilson Smith and Joe D. Smith, Jr. , until March 1996, when it was sold to Central Newspapers.
The chapel was founded by French Creole families in the 1800s as a mission of St. Augustine Catholic Parish Church of Isle Brevelle.During this period, St. Augustine Catholic Parish Church founded 3 other missions: St. Anne Church (Spanish Lake) (serving the Adai Caddo Indians of Louisiana), St. Joseph's Catholic Mission at Bayou Derbonne, and St. Charles Chapel at Bermuda.
Robert William Marshall, Jr. (born June 17, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as Bishop of Alexandria in Louisiana since 2020. Biography [ edit ]