St. Martin de Tours

ID: 213 ~ Source: The original church. St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church, eCatholic, saintmartindetours.org/photoalbums/historic-photos-of-church. Accessed 2 May 2018.

This file appears in: An Acadian Home

The original church in the 1800s

This file appears in: An Acadian Home

An Acadian Home – St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church

By Sophia Verret

Saint Martin de Tours Catholic Church was founded by the Acadian exiles in 1765 when they arrived in St. Martinville. This church was officially blessed as a new church in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The number of parishioners that this church…