Birthplace of Bishop Jules Jeanmard

Before he was a bishop, Jules Jeanmard was a young priest in New Orleans. After seminaries there and in St. Louis he was ordained on June 10, 1903, and worked as a curate at St. Louis Cathedral through the 1905 yellow fever epidemic. He then spent years as secretary to Archbishop James Blenk and, from 1914, as chancellor of the archdiocese. When Rome created the Diocese of Lafayette in 1918, he became its first bishop and served 38 years. He was the first Catholic bishop born in Louisiana.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 4.9 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.
• Vermilionville — 7.2 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 11 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.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 11 mi
  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.

More markers nearby

• Breaux Bridge, Louisiana / Pont de Breaux, Louisiane — steps away
• Pont Breaux, Louisiane — steps away
• Legend of Bayou Teche / La Legende du Bayou Teche — steps away
• History of St. Bernard Catholic School — steps away