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 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH
In memory of the early French missionaries and settlers who came to this area in the late 18th Century and the Catholic faith that they rooted in the lives of the people on the banks of the Wabash River.
1818-1819 The establishment and construction of
the first log chapel
1836 Father John Courbe becomes the first
resident pastor
1838 The dedication of the 2nd Church by
Bishop Brute.
1842 The opening of the first Catholic School
by the Sisters of Providence.
1887 The construction of the frame church.
1916 The erection of the present brick Church
in Italian renaissance architecture.
By the Illinois Daughters of the American Colonists, March 10, 1985.
7th St. & Main St., St. Francisville, Lawrence County Illinois
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