St Mary Magdalen Church

St. Mary Magdalen Church is a historical Roman Catholic Church at Pere Megret and Main Street in Abbeville, Louisiana. The cemetery was based 1844 the existing church changed into constructed in 1911 the American Foursquare style rectory become built in 1921. The belongings introduced to the National Register in 1988. The church is a crimson brick Gothic fashion cruciform basilica with buff colored brick accents. It has Romanesque Revival details. It has relatively projecting buttresses reinforcing its outer walls. St. Mary Magdalen Parish was installed in 1842 via Pere Antoine Desire Megret.

The first church, the revamped domestic of Joseph LeBlanc, turned into built and devoted inside the spring of 1844. From the start it became positioned beneath the invocation of Saint Mary Magdalen a fave saint among the descendants of the Acadian exiles in the course of South Louisiana. The call was constantly retained, besides for a quick time during Father Laforest management, while after the 1907 hearth the church turned into quickly called Saint Ann at the least inside the reports. N September 1847, Reverend Nicholas Francais became given charge of Saint Mary Magdalen Church, however Pere Megret persisted to look after the Catholics of Abbeville and place. Father Francais served there till after September 1850.