Historic Location of St. Landry Catholic Church

ID: 87 ~ Source: Map of St. Landry church site. Oubre, Claude F. A History of the Diocese of Lafayette. Editions du Signe, 2001.

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Historic Location of St. Landry Catholic Church

Oubre captions this image as “Map of land for first Church in Opelousas district” (13). It is a well-preserved document from the first of many church sites in St. Landry’s history.

This file appears in: A Grandiose Building with a War-Torn Past

A Grandiose Building with a War-Torn Past – St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, LA

By Briley Higginbotham

This cathedral-sized church in Opelousas is called the “Mother Church of Acadiana,” for it was the second to be founded in the Diocese of Lafayette, and many smaller church parishes have been formed within the wide boundaries of the original parish…