The rectangular church opened in was deemed good enough for the first Bishop of the London Diocese which was erected in to transfer his See to Sandwich and make it his Cathedral in This entailed the departure of the Jesuits, who by their many apostolic labours had written the brightest chapter in the Annals of Assumption parish.
The cemetery, which was south of the church in , was too close to the projected residence the bishop wished to build. This so-called palace was not well designed…and only thirty-five years after its erection, the leaky mass of the building had to be demolished because it was already considered beyond repair.
The next bishop returned the See to London in In the Basilian Fathers of Toronto were invited to take charge of the parish and Assumption College, which had been opened in by the Jesuit Fathers. Simultaneously, a touch of colour was introduced by the installation of the stained glass windows in the sanctuary and apse. Through Fr. In the Stations of the Cross in oil paintings were acquired.
The elaborate stone altar was imported from Caen, France, in The statue of St. Joseph was donated in , and The Pieta and the statue of Ste. Anne was blessed in Throughout the following years, several changes were made to the church culminating in when The floor in the sanctuary was covered with tile of a strikingly beautiful pattern and the addition of the communion rail of exquisitely carved Italian marble.
The old sacristy and the retreat chapel needed to be demolished in due to their poor state of repair. It was decided to build a new chapel to the west of the church, and the construction of Rosary Chapel began. In carved panelling and furniture in quarter cut oak were added to the sanctuary, a donation from the Altar Society. In it became evident that a new roof was a necessity.
Asbestos slates replaced the rotting wooden shingles. At the same time, the steeple and minarets were repaired and copperized. The old wooden balustrade at the edge of the roof was replaced by one made of stone from the old Sandwich jail. In at the west end of the parish, some two hundred families had been impoverished by the depression and subjected to prevalent communistic influences.
For lack of means or of living faith, many of these people were not coming to church. So Father Allor decided to bring the church to them, and he erected the mission chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. The project was financed by the whole parish. The site chosen was on Prince Road near St.
Besides a new hardwood floor and pews, the project included two confessionals and wall-panelling in smoked oak. Looking for a location in Assumption Parish?
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Joseph were removed, and the center marble altar was screened from view. Much of the church structure was destroyed by a devastating fire which took place on April 10, Although the roof fell in, pews were damaged, and the organ was ruined by water, the marble altar and stained glass windows all survived with the exception of the Rose window over the loft which was later restored.
During the rebuilding of the church, weekend Masses were celebrated in the school gym until Christmas Eve of , when Midnight Mass was celebrated on an unfinished floor in the church, with the congregation seated in folding chairs. The newly-restored church was re-dedicated by Bishop Rodimer on Feb. The parish seat is Napoleonville. Assumption parish is named in honor of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church, the oldest in the state. Assumption Parish was created on , as an Original Parish and the parish was named in honor of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church, the oldest in the state.
The Parish seat is Napoleonville. Prior to , the French, proceeding south along Bayou Lafourche from where that stream forks with the Mississippi, settled on both sides of "the river of the Chitimacha. Upon acquisition of the territory by the United States in , English speaking land seekers came and at Napoleonville, named by a soldier who had served under the Little Colonel, they found a thriving market place.
Yet another group, the Canary Islanders or Islenos, added to the nationalities entering the area. The post was about at the site of Belle Alliance, where today stands a plantation home bearing the latter name and built in by Charles Kock.
Nearby are ruins of Belle Alliance Sugarhouse, once one of the most important west of the Mississippi River, and around which a Negro community has grown. South of the parish seat, the area around Labadieville was taken up by French and Spanish, joined by Acadians and a sprinkling of Germans from the Cote des Allemands or German Coast to the east on the Mississippi River.
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