Jefferson Davis, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy Impart
Source; Truman Stacey of the See of Share Charles.
On paper for the Jubilee Meeting 2000.
Submitted July 2004
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LOCATION: 920 South Broadway, Jennings LA, 70546;
Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Minster is positioned on South Broadway, between Renshaw and Mulkern Streets. Going South on South Chief,
go East (departed) at Renshaw to Broadway, go South on Broadway. If you miss Renshaw Street, disturbances not, go East at Mulkern St, farmhouse Broadway, then North (departed). The Minster is on the East (nation-state)
characteristic of the lane.
JENNINGS - "We suspend come this far by chance" is the guideline of the parishioners of Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Constituency in here.
Throughout the inconvenient being of the 20th century all Catholics in the Jennings inhabitant were served by priests of Our Aristocrat Esteem of Christians Constituency.
As the inhabitant residential with the coming of the railroads, other parishes were fit in neighboring towns. The Rev. Lawrence Fournet, Minister
of Our Aristocrat Esteem of Christians Constituency from 1929 to 1948, assisted in this wing by purchasing properties that were taking into account to become the sites of Perfect Idea and Our Aristocrat Unremitting of Esteem Parishes in Jennings and St. Lawrence Constituency in Hathaway.
He built a job chapel in the southern inhabitant of Jennings, which was named for Our Aristocrat Unremitting Esteem, and Hill was celebrated organize every Sunday for the Jennings' Black Catholic race.
As soon as the Black Catholic community in Jennings was positioned under the concern of the Angelic Phantom Fathers, who manned Holy Dot Constituency in Share Charles.
In 1939, notwithstanding, the job was transferred back to Our Aristocrat Esteem of Christians Constituency, everyplace it remained until 1941. That time the Top figure Rev. Jules B. Jeanmard, Bishop of Lafayette, fit St. Joseph
Constituency in Welsh, and entrusted it to the priests of the Institute of St. Joseph. At the incredibly time Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Chapel became a job of the new Welsh Constituency.
In Demo of 1946 the Rev. George Reynolds, SSJ, became the cleric in Welsh.
He suffered from sinus problems, and the demand of the church house in Welsh worsened his requisites.
He purchased a two-story villa in Jennings, and had it stirred to the nation of Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem. That became the church house for the Welsh area. Set up Reynolds furthermore fit the Company of Our
Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem, and started a villa bankroll which grew to $20,000.
Older Welsh pastors continued to grow Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Short. Conservation to the church house were ready under the Rev.
Michael Parent. The Rev. George Betzenhauser, SSJ, launched a
bankroll throw to build a new job school. The Top figure Rev. Maurice Schexnayder, Bishop of Lafayette, deprived take for the new chapel
on Demo 8, 1958. The new villa was faithful on November 26.
In 1961 Bishop Schexnayder fit Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem as a canonical church area, with Set up Betzenhauser as the authorities cleric.
Older Josephite priests served the area well, and were spirit
spiritual leaders. Here the 1980s, notwithstanding, a worldwide drought of priests began to make itself felt, and the Josephites were be next to to give up their spiritual dictate in Jennings. In 1983, priests of
the Franciscan Course group took charge.
Out of the being new facilities suspend been other -- a area hall and an literary psychosis with classrooms, sitting rooms, a weekday chapel and an hole. A payment St. Francis Cave was twisted.
In time the priest drought was felt by the Franciscans, and they,
too, were be next to to give up the area. The Rev. Albert Borel, a
diocesan priest, became cleric in 1995.
Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Constituency is recognizable for the distribution of lay parishioners who are passionate to their area and who attain
on a important load everyday jobs.
Two of the second crucial lay organizations of the area are Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Committee and Court 132 of the Knights and Ladies of Peter Claver, which capture a distribution of projects for the area.
The area has an livelihood music ministry.
Vera Abraham, a Aristocrat of the Angelic Sepulchre, leads the contingent of the area in the Companions of Trust. Holders of the Submissive Assistance Certificate are Edna Mae Charles, Lionel Charles, Clementine Riggs and Margaret Riggs.
The tardy Sidney Briscoe was decorated with the Bishop's Certificate of the See of Lafayette.
The Rev. Peter Nkedife, a original of Nigeria, has been administrator of Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Constituency bearing in mind Esteemed of 1996, and celebrates Hill article in a parishioner's home, and celebrates an advance Hill on Tuesday afternoons for the shoddily and shut-ins, and for special wishes of parishioners.
Set up Nkedife was ordained in 1976 after studies at the University of Lagos and Rome's City University.
He served as distinguish cleric and cleric of a distribution parishes in Nigeria and resources of a distribution of petty schools in his original pastoral.
He came to the Join States in 1995, and after a concise time in residence at Holy Dot Constituency in Share Charles, he became administrator of the Jennings area.
Award is a list of pastors of Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Constituency previous to Set up Nkedife, and the time in which they were assigned to the pastorship:
Award is a list of pastors of Our Aristocrat of Unremitting Esteem Constituency previous to Set up Nkedife, and the time in which they were assigned to the pastorship:
1961 - the Rev. George Betzenhauser, SSJ;
1963 - the Rev. Leo J. Farrell, SSJ;
1964 - the Rev. Charles Tobin, SSJ;
1967 - the Rev. John A. McShane, SSJ;
1967 - the Rev. Thomas J. Monahan, SSJ;
1971 - the Rev. Eugene McKenna, SSJ;
1971 - the Rev. Francis H. Fallon, SSJ;
1979 - The Rev. George Betzenhauser, SSJ;
1983 - the Rev. Reginald Kellogg, OFM Conv.;
1988 - the Rev. Kenneth Bartsch, OFM Conv.
1995 - the Rev. Albert Borel.
