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353: 51: 68: 93: 1574: 1065: 1585: 423:, sometimes (albeit erroneously) called Marie Thérèse Metoyer. He had initially leased her services as a domestic and concubine. When the parish priest filed charges against the black Coincoin for bearing mixed-race children while living in the residence of a white man, and threatened to sell her away to New Orleans, Metoyer bought her from her owner and privately manumitted her. Across the next thirty-seven years, he manumitted each of their children. 100: 75: 416:. The baptism of Jean Baptiste Brevelle II is recorded on May 20, 1736 in the oldest Catholic Registry in the Louisiana colony. Brevelle was granted the island by David Pain, the subdelegate at Natchitoches in 1765 for his service to the French and Spanish crowns as a Caddo Indian translator and explorer of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. 288:
Tradition holds that the church was established by Nicolas Augustin Metoyer in 1803 and that services have been held continuously since then. Historical records challenge the local lore. Parish records document the founding of the Chapel of St. Augustine "as a mission of the church of St. François of
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Metoyer family who built the chapel. Seated behind them were the families of prominent white planters and other Creoles within the community with surnames Blanchard, Brevelle, Garcia, Landry, and Lemoine. Post-Civil War, St. Augustine chalked up another apparent first in U.S. racial history: its own
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to conduct services. They explicitly name the site at which the services were held. Those records repeatedly document that Augustin Metoyer and his family brought their children and slaves to one or another named site for baptism or marriage. The first services were held on Augustin's plantation on
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A second church burned in the early 1900s. It was replaced by the present-day church building, which was completed in 1917. Tradition holds that early furnishings included paintings of patron saints Augustine and Louis, in honor of the Metoyer brothers, as well as an altar brought from Europe by
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on the plantation of Sieur Augustin Metoyer through the care and generosity of the above-named Augustin Metoyer, aided by Louis Metoyer, his brother. ... The said chapel ... having been dedicated to St. Augustine, shall be considered as under the protection of this great doctor." Tradition also
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On March 11, 1856, the mission of St. Augustine at Isle Brevelle was decreed by Bishop Auguste Martin to be a parish in its own right and assigned Fr. Francois Martin to be its first resident pastor. As a parish in its own right, St. Augustine expanded to serve four other churches in the area:
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and went up for auction in the 1970s, the pastor of the church brought the oldest descendants of Nicolas Augustin Metoyer to the auction and they pleaded to be allowed to purchase the painting for the Isle Brevelle community and for display in the church.
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other family members. The original bell that hung in the belfry above the vestibule is said to be the one still in use. An image of the original church survives as a backdrop in the contemporary oil portrait of its founder that hangs in the church today.
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Metoyer to Augustin, doc. 2409 (1792) and Metoyer to Dominique, doc. 2584 (1795), Colonial Archives, Office of the Clerk of Court, Natchitoches. Metoyer to Louis, Pierre, and Marie Susanne, Misc. Book 2: 207–11, Office of the Clerk of Court,
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The Church of St. Augustine is distinctive among Southern churches of all denominations for its racial role reversals. Surviving pew records show that the front seats were occupied by the
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Natchitoches" in July 1829, shortly after the church was constructed. The mission was recognized in 1856 as a parish in its own right, and authorized a resident priest.
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Natchitoches. Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana 1729-1803
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congregation by this time was almost exclusively people of color; but, it served as the mother church for the predominantly white congregation of
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The original structure has not survived. Union forces during the Red River Campaign of May 1864 were said to have torched the first church.
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Fr. J.B. Blanc, Reg. 6: 116. For a lengthy analysis of the evidence surrounding the construction of the chapel, see Gary B. Mills,
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When Father Jean Baptiste Blanc consecrated the chapel for religious use (19 July 1829), he reported that it had been "erected on
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Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Quintanilla's Crusade, 1775–1783: 'Moral Reform' and Its Consequences on the Natchitoches Frontier",
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Early black Baptist churches were founded in South Carolina and Virginia around the time of the American Revolutionary War.
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A black-and-white image of the portrait is reproduced online in the archived edition of Ken Ringle, "Up through Slavery,"
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is recognized as the oldest church built by and for African Americans that is still standing in the United States. See
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The Metoyer brothers were two of ten children of the French merchant Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer and the former slave
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are named for him. Brevelle was an 18th-century explorer and soldier of the Natchitoches Militia. He is the son of
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Nicolas Augustin Metoyer, St. Augustine is celebrated as the first church in Louisiana to be built by and for
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chapter 9, summarizes the testimony in the numerous Civil War damage claims by St. Augustine parishioners.
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The History of St. Augustine's Parish; Isle Brevelle, Natchez, La.; 1803–1853; 1829–1954; 1856–1856
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The parish registers from 1803–29 document each time the parish priest traveled to Cane River and
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Cane River National Heritage Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
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Cane River National Heritage Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
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Cane River National Heritage Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
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National Register of Historic Places in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
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describes the role of Augustin's brother Louis (founder of the nearby
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The first Creole to settle the area is Jean Baptiste Brevelle II.
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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
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and swath of green fabric. This painting had been part of the
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The Church is depicted in the 1982 historical romantic drama
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history, St. Augustine also is a marked destination on the
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Its core would be, and still is, St. Augustine Parish on
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within Isle Brevelle and attended mass at St. Augustine.
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Ron Stodghill, "Driving Back Into Louisiana’s History"
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Tourist attractions in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
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area's historic French, Spanish, Native American and
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color
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The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color
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The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color
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The Forgotten People: Cane River's Créoles of Color
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Medium sized white church with small steeple and red roof surrounded by some plant beds with brick borders.
St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery (Natchez, Louisiana) is located in Louisiana
St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery (Natchez, Louisiana) is located in the United States
Louisiana Highway 484
Natchez, Louisiana
31°35′37″N 92°58′22″W / 31.59361°N 92.97278°W / 31.59361; -92.97278
14000679
Catholic
Melrose
Natchitoches Parish
Louisiana
Cane River
Black Creole
Black Catholic
Louisiana Creole
free people of color
African Americans
Cane River National Heritage Area
National Register of Historic Places
Creole
Louisiana African American Heritage Trail
Isle Brevelle
Melrose Plantation
National Historic Landmark
Mission Ste. Anne on Old River
St. Charles Chapel at Bermuda
St. Anne Church (Spanish Lake)
Adai Caddo Indians of Louisiana
St. Joseph's Catholic Mission at Bayou Derbonne

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