Ange Marie Jan

Father Ange Marie Jan changed the shape of the church he served. In 1874, during his years as pastor, from 1851 to 1887, he added transepts and extended the sanctuary, giving St. Martin de Tours its cruciform plan. The congregation he led had been incorporated by the legislature on March 7, 1814, and the building he enlarged had been dedicated on June 2, 1844. A monument to him stands in front of the church, erected by parishioners in 1888, after his death.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — steps away
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — steps away
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 1.0 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.0 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.

More markers nearby

• St. Martin Catholic Church — steps away
• St. Martinville — steps away
• Attakapa Indian — steps away
• On This Site Lie Buried Officers of The Attakapas Militia — steps away