Church of the Holy Apostles

Jean Pierre was a Breton, born in Lanloup in 1831, who entered minor seminary in 1845 and placed second in his class at Saint-Brieuc. Bishop Auguste Martin recruited him for the new Diocese of Natchitoches, and he left Le Havre in October 1854. Ordained in September 1855, his first assignment was a church and rectory at Bayou Pierre, finished by mid-1856. Martin then sent him to Shreveport, where he became first pastor of Holy Trinity. He died of yellow fever in 1873 and is one of the five Shreveport Martyrs.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — 6.4 mi
  A 1957 museum and three-quarter-mile trail on the ground where Confederate troops broke a Union line on April 8, 1864, in a park begun by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
• Lake Bistineau State Park — 27 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.

More markers nearby

• Paul Boüet Laffitte — steps away
• Rock Chapel — 0.4 mi
• Battle of Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads (Rail Fence Used as Barricade) — 6.3 mi
• Louisiana Monument (Battle of Mansfield) — 6.4 mi