This is Lafayette, Louisiana, deep country spiced with gumbo, accordion-and-fiddle zydeco music and crawfish fields, all leavened with Cajun devotion to the “One True Church.” French immigrants carried the Faith (and not much else) here in the mid-18th century after expulsion from Canadian territory on the Atlantic coast known as Acadia.Ī few miles south of the stadium, the sick and dying receive succor at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center.
You know you’re deep in Catholic territory when not only is there a church and a grotto named after Our Lady of Lourdes, but the college football team knocks heads at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium.
Thérèse of Lisieux?” - Servant of God Charlene Richard “Do you think I could be a saint like St.
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